In singing, the verses are still further altered by prolongation, repetition and insertion of syllables, and various modulations, rests, and other modifications prescribed, for the guidance of the officiating priests, in the Ganas or Song-books. In these compiled hymns there are frequent variations, of more or less importance, from the text of the Rgveda as we now possess it which variations, although in some cases they are apparently explanatory, seem in others to be older and more original than the readings of the Rgveda. The Collection is made up of hymns, portions of hymns, and detached verses, taken mainly from the Rgveda, transposed and re-arranged, without reference to their original order, to suit the religious ceremonies in which they were to be employed. Its Sanhita, or metrical portion, consists chiefly of hymns to be chanted by the Udgatar priests at the performance of those important sacrifices in which the juice of the Soma plant, clarified and mixed with milk and other ingredients, was offered in libation to various deities. The Sama Veda, or Veda of Holy Songs, third in the usual order of enumeration of the three Vedas, ranks next in sanctity and liturgical importance to the Rgveda or Veda of Recited praise. Its purpose was liturgical, as the repertoire of the udgātṛ or "singer" priests who took part in the sacrifice. Two major recensions remain today, the Kauthuma/Ranayaniya and the Jaiminiya. Including repetitions, there are a total of 1875 verses numbered in the Samaveda recension translated by Griffith. Some of the Rigvedic verses are repeated more than once. Like the Rigvedic stanzas in the Yajurveda, the Samans have been changed and adapted for use in singing. The Hymns of the Sama Veda, also known as the Hymns of the Samaveda or the Samaveda Samhita (from sāman, the term for a melody applied to metrical hymn or song of praise) consists of 1549 stanzas, taken almost entirely (except for 78 stanzas) from the Rigveda. Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,History,Asia,.
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