Sama Veda is perhaps the earliest human literature on music. It naturally incorporates music, mantra, chhanda, linguistics, and above all, a reflection of the world view of rishis who communicated in ...

Panjal: The primal Vedic chants that ring across the rolling greens of this village in Thrissur district are a ceremonial invitation to Lord Indra, the god of rain, to join the ancient fire ritual of ...

The Sama Veda is a collection of melodies. The hymns in the Sama Veda, used as musical notes, are drawn from the Rig Veda and have no distinctive lessons of their own. As vedic scholar David Frawley ...

TRIPUNITHURA: Nellikkaattu Maamannu Narayanan Namboothiri, the most senior Sama Veda scholar in Kerala, turns 98 on Tuesday. Incidentally, a day before his birthday an Athirathram began at his native ...

<span class=author>V K Rangra</span><br />According to the Hindu view of creation, it was sound and not light that appeared first. In Vedic parlance it is called Nada ...

Words like Vedic rituals and Vedic age figure every now and then in the discussions of educated ones. MOTIHARI (EAST CHAMPARAN): Words like Vedic rituals and Vedic age figure every now and then in the ...

Vedic Sangeeta Foundation under the able stewardship of A.K. Ramamurthy has been taking splendid efforts to document the vedas to the extent available by way of recordings for posterity in compact ...