Glimpses of the Sama Veda

The Vedas since the dawn of human civilisation have been regarded as the first Source Books of knowledge given to man for his individual and collective welfare. They speak of eternal truth and not the history of earlier people as understood by many today. There is no primitivism in the revealed knowledge. It would be erroneous on our part if we interpret the Vedic verses anthropologically or archaeologically. The Sama verses glorify the Lord Supreme. Only 99 verses of this Veda out of a total of 1875 are such which do not belong to Rigveda whereas the rest are Rigvedic verses sung in Saman tune. Purvarcika the first part of the text contains 640 versesand Uttararcika the second part 1225 verses. In between there is a small part of 10 verses. In sanctity and liturgical importanceSamaveda is next to Rigveda although it ranks third in the usual order of enumeration of the Vedas. During the Saman music thechanter as he draws the notes from the vocal organs indicates the same on the fingers of the left and right hands.