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[tapansharotri (tapan sharotri)]

Hi Friends!

Here is some useful information about the Vedas the original social system of our origin.These books are an effort to make the the understanding better about the vedas but it adresses the nacent level.So i would appreciate participation from all of us.


The Rig-Veda:- The date for the Rig-Veda was in controversy for a long time. The traditional date goes back to 3000BC, something which the German scholar Max Mueller accepted. However, modern historians have now reached a consensus that its oldest parts were written around a more cautious 1200BC.

As a body of writing, the Rig-Veda (the wisdom of verses) is nothing short of remarkable. It contains 1028 hymns dedicated to thirty-three different gods; these gods were, quite expectedly, nature gods. The most often addressed gods are Indra (rain god; king of heavens), Agni (fire god) and Rudra (storm god; the 'howler'). A sizeable chunk of the verses are also dedicated to Soma (the draught of immortality), which was a cool alcoholic brew made from the leaves of the soma plant and was drunk during sacrifices. The identity of the plant itself is subject of furious debate. In nature, however, it was somewhat similar to the brews that the American Indians used to consume before conducting sacrifices – to numb both the sacrificer and the sacrificee although human sacrifice was never a part of Aryan worship.

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Tapan Sharotri.

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[tapansharotri (tapan sharotri)]

The Samaveda (Sanskrit: सामवेद, sāmaveda, a tatpurusha compound of sāman "melody" + veda "knowledge" ), is third in the usual order of enumeration of the four Vedas, the ancient core Hindu scriptures. Its earliest parts are believed to date from 1000 BC.

The Samaveda ranks next in sanctity and liturgical importance to the Rigveda or Veda of Recited Praise. Its Samhita, or metrical portion, consists chiefly of hymns to be sung 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, is offered in libation to various deities.

The Collection is made up of hymns, portions of hymns, and detached verses, all but 75 taken from the Rigveda. They have been transposed and re-arranged, without reference to their original order, to suit the rituals in which they were to be employed. The verses are not intended to be recited but sung by using specifically indicated melodies employing the seven svaras or notes. Such songs are called Samagana.

[rahulmails (Abhishek)]

thats an amazing file to read, and be enlightened to how knowledgeable our ancestors were...