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The Saama Veda is said to be the most interesting Veda. In Bhagavath geethaa Lord Krishna has said, “ Vedaanaam saamavedoasmi” ( I am the Saama Veda among vedas). It is the base of all Indian music /songs /ragas/ and arts. Gaandharva veda ( sangeetha veda) is the upaveda of Saama veda. The saptha swara has its origin from saama veda.
Sa-rit ga-ma-pa-da-ni are the first letters of seven saama veda mantras. In Saama Veda the seven ragas are written as prathama, dwitheeya, thritheeya, chathurthi, panchami, shashti and sapthami . The equivalent Ragas in KaranatIC or Hindustani music are respectively madhyma (ma), gaandhaara (ga), rishabha (ri), shadja (sa), nishaada (ni), daivatha (da) and panchama (pa).

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The Aranyakas primarily focus on the yaagas and yajnaas. The subject matter was kamyeshties which are meant for prosperity, wealth, power, and so on. In short these yaagas and yajnaas are for making life happy and prosperous, for the family members, kings, village heads and also for great or rich men . The next branch of Indian knowledge is compiled are known as Aaranyakaas. Aaranyaka means ‘ that is connected with forest’. The rituals which are to be performed by those who are going to vaana prastha. (after the family life and giving the responsibility of the family to the grown up children). While living in forest, many rituals are to be performed with the available materials in the forest. These rituals are not for name, fame or prosperity. They are meant for leaving the life happily (moksha) without any bondage. Hence they are known as moksheshti. The yaagas which lead for moksha or detachment. Here comes the philosophy, the meaning, bondage, attachment, jnaana, bhakti, karma, dharma, Vedas, upanishads, psychology, divinity, brahma saaakshaath kaaram, brahma jnaanam, ultimate truth and relative truth, sensory organs, functional organs etc., connected with life. Because these subjects are the part and parcel of Indian philosophy and hence leading to upanishadic knowledge through aaranyaka texts. there are Rgvedic and Yajurvedic aranyakaas. No Aaranyakas for sama Veda and Atharva Veda. However subject matters of aaranyakas are dealt in the last part of many of the brahmanas of samaveda and also in the Gopatha brahmana of Atharvaveda.
Rigvedeeya aaranyakas. They are Aitareya aaranyaka and kousheetakee aaranyaka, Yajurvedeeya aaranyakas are maithraayaneeya aaranyaka and Thaithireeya aaranyaka. For the modern man, the aranyakas do not have much relevance, in the day to day life as they are meant for vaanaprasthaasrami and almost the subject matters deal with yaagas. Still we are presenting the abstract of the aaranyakas exclusively for getting an outline of such type of literature, existing as a part of Vedas.
Yajurvedeeya aranyaka: Next we enter into the yajurvedeeya aranyaka . There are no aranyakas for the Sukla yajurveda. Maithraayaneeya aranyaka and thaithireeya aranyka are the two aranykas for the Krishna yajurveda. In the former, the first part discusses about the significance of the spiritual and sanyasa life by narrating the story of King Bruhadratha, who gave up all his belonging and country and went for sanyasa and attained moksha.
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Let us open the books which come after the (four) Vedas in the vedic literature. These books are known as Brahmanas or brahminical literature. Majority of them explain the yaaga / yajna rituals which is practically difficult for anyone to understand without their commentaries. The books are meant for vedic scholars. Some of the brahmanas may contain different subjects also. These literature , in some cases form the continuation of the Vedas and some are separately available. Many of the information given in Brahmanas are separately available. Many of the information given in Brahmanas are the authentic references for the history of ancient India. Even some of the UGC approved history texts are /were prepared based on the descriptions given in the brahmanas (particularly satha patha brahmana and gopatha brahmana). Generally brahmanas are composed as prose mixed with veda mantrs.
The brahmanas are classified under each Veda. They are Rig vedic - sukla yajurvedic – Krishna yajurvedic – samavedic and atharva vedic brahmanas. The yaagas are performed by the vedic scholars of respective Veda sakha based on the explanations given in their respective vedic brahmanas. If I belong to Rig Veda sakha, then I am expected to perform the yaga based on the brahmanas of Rigveda. How ever all the Vedas and many Veda mantras from different sakhas will be used in every yaagas. However the chief priest and yajamana will follow the yaga karmas based on the respective brahmanas of the Vedas. As mentioned earlier there are other subjects also in this text. Number of pages, contents, descriptions methods, presentation styles, etc of each of the brahmanas vary. They also contain sometimes, social, psychological, historical, spiritual, religious, linguistic,.. subjects also.

Rigvedeeya Brahmana: Aithareya brahmana, saankhyaayana brahmana and kousheetakee brahmana are the three brahmanas of Rigveda of which aithareya and saankhyayana brahmana are available in full, where as kousheetaki brahmana is almost lost for ever.

Yajurvedeeya Brahmana: We have already discussed the brahmanas of Rigveda and now we shall move to brahmanas of Yajurveda. Most important among the brahmanas of vedic literature is Sathapatha brahmana. It is so called because it has hundred chapters. The satha patha brahmana has two versions /recensions. One having 100 chapters belonging to Vajasaneyee maadhyndina Sukla Yajurveda and the other having 104 chapters, belonging to Kanwa sakha. Both the texts resemble very much in their contents. They are also divided into 14 kaandas (parts) or 438 brahmanas (sub titles ). Generally the book gives the explanations of yaagas to be performed by the Vedic scholars belonging to the Yajurveda saakha. How ever the information when deeply and systematically analyzed, one can get lot of information on the ancient history of India. in fact many of the Indian history books quote a lot from this brahmana text.

Saamavedeeya brahmana: Now we shall go through the Sama vedeeya brahmana. There are eleven brahmanas for the Sama Veda. They are Thaandya brahmana, Jaimineeya brahmana, Upanishad brahmana, Devathaadhyaaya brahmana, Jaimineeyopanishad brahmana, Samhithopanishad brahmana Vamsabrahmana Aarsheya brahmana , Shadvimsa brahmana, Saamavidhana brahmana and Chandogya brahmana.

Atharva vedeeya brahmana: Gopatha Brahmana is the brahmana connected with Atharva Veda. It is perfectly organized in content and literary beauty. Gopatha word is said to have the meaning guptha = deep / secret and it also is said to have another meaning following the footsteps of Veda ( Go means Vedas and patha means footsteps/ pathways). So gopatha means the footsteps of Vedas. It is as big as Rig-Veda and almost similar in size with the sathapatha brahmana. It has been divided into two parts. In the first part there are five prapaatakas which is known as poorva brahmana and in the second part there are six prapatakaas which is known as uttara brahmana.

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Atharva veda is also known as BraHma Veda, Atharva Agneerasa Veda, Angeerasa Veda, Kshatra Veda. It is wrongly commented that the Atharva Veda is inferior (or forbidden) to other three Vedas. Some of the cinemas / movies / serials strengthen this mis - understanding about atharva Veda. It is wrong, the quality and all other parameters of Atharva veda are similar to other Vedas. Veda thrayee only means three qualities of each Vedas which are samhita, chandas and sruti. Atharva Veda has all these three. Hence no way Atharva veda is inferior to other Vedas. Atharva Veda mantras generally connected with common man’s problems and prayers which are sociology, agriculture, medicine, success and failures and so on in the life.
It is said that Atharva Veda has 50 recensions/ sakhas. Only nine sakhas are known, now. Their names are Pippalada sakha, thouda sakha, mouda sakha, sounakeeya sakha, jaajala sakha, jalada sakha, brahmavada sakha, devadarsa sakha, and charana vaidya sakha. Now only two sakhas are available in the complete form. They are sounaka sakha and pippalada sakha. Unfortunately due to the wrong understanding (mis understanding / superstition that Atharva Veda is inferior to other Vedas) there are only few students to learn and few teachers to teach this Veda. Thus Atharva Vedic scholars are very few in number. In Keralam there may be two or three scholars who know the veda with sruti . Even the original sruthi of this Veda is also said to be almost lost (?).
A few that Atharva veda has all black magic in that. It is wrong. There are some mantras which are falling under satru nasana, rashtra vijaya, roga nasana, raja vijaya, and so on. There are so many mantras which are chanted during ratha arohana, entering in palace, simhasana arohana, and for prosperity – health – long life – freedom from health problems – medicines for variety of diseases etc. These mantras are chanted exclusively for the benefit as prayer.
The Sounakeeya sakha of Atharva Veda has 750 sukthas compiled in 20 Kandas (parts) having 5987 mantras of which 1200 mantras are from Rigveda. There are many Yajurveda mantras too. Each suktha has a purpose chanting. Hence this arrangement of the suktha by mentioning the purpose is unique to Atharva Veda. It is said that the learning procedure of Atharva Veda was not as rigid as observed in other Vedas. Hence it is said that variations in chanting methodology, number of mantras etc are common. There can be variation when students from Kerala and Kashmir chant the same Atharva Veda sakha. This is not the case with other three Vedas. Now we shall discuss the subject matter of Atharva Veda as a continuation . As mentioned earlier, there are 5987 mantras in Atharva Veda and they are included in 750 suktas. Each sukta is a prayer / explanation for fulfilling the expectations or wishes. These prayers are for different purposes which reflect in the name of the suktha. Atharva vedic prayers focus for prosperity and peaceful life on earth with all spiritual and physical comforts. Atharva Veda manthras are classified under adhyatmikam, adhibouthikam and adhidaivatham. The adhyatmika subjects are included in adhyathmika prakaranam: aathma thathwam, brahmacharyam – gruhastha-vanaprastha-sanyasa dharmam, description on jeevathama, paramathma, health, pancha bhootha, pancha prana and so on. Prayer for good health, medicines, curative effect, long life, relief from diseases / health problems like leprosy / fever/ small pox/ infections, and so on are also included in adhythmika prakaranam .
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YAJURVEDA
it is said that therere mohan 100 recesions. each of the recesions has further branched into branchlets. hence yajurveda is known as yajurveda vruksha ( yajurveda tree). Even though it is not easy for a common to understand let us just glance through the names of the yajurveda text recesions. they are Aalambi, kalinga, ruchaabha, aaruni, thandya, syaamaayana, kata, kaalapi are the prime shakas. From this each prime shakas further divided to sub shakas. to read the full topic on yajurveda principles.

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RIGVEDA
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Rig-Veda is the oldest literature of human race. It has been composed by many Rushies and not one Rishi. The Rig Veda is so known because it is composed of Riks. Riks means two lines of poems/ mantras with very stringent sruthies / tones to chant. Each suktha may have two or more Riks in it. Those who compose the Veda mantras are known as Mantra drushtara: means who could see the Veda mantra. Majority of the names of Vedic Rushies are not known to us and we will definitely explain that. These mantras were composed in many years and not at a particular period. They might have got composed during a period of thousands of years. The first part of the Rig-Veda appears in old Vedic Sanskrit and last part appears to be modern Sanskrit. In short there is an opinion that the first part and second part of Rig Veda mantra were composed in slightly different Sanskrit style.
The composers of Vedas : Rushies who composed the Veda mantra are known as mantra drushtaara. These mantras were classified by the Rushies of Veda Vyasa kula (clan). I.e. they classified/ rearranged all the Veda mantra sookthas available during then, to the present form as seen now in Rig-Veda. Majority of the Veda hymns are composed by the Rushies of Viswamitra kula, Angeerasa kula, Athreya kula and Bharadwaaja kula and Kanwakula. All the hymns are adoring the Vedic devathas. Rigveda is composed almost fully in poetical style.
Sakhas of Rig-Veda : There are 25 sakhas for Rig-Veda . These sakhas are wrongly interpreted in English as branches No ! They are recensions. Out of the 25 sakhas only four are available now, the remaining are lost for ever. Each saakha is known in the name of respective Rushies. They are Saakala saakha, Bhaashkala saakha, Saankhyaayana saakha, and Kousheethakee saakha are most important and they are composed or organized in the present status by Saakala, Bhaashkala, Saankhyayana and Kousheethakee Maharushies. Major difference among these Vedic recensions of Rig-Veda are in the arrangements of some mantras (Riks) and also in the organization of the Parisishta mantras. ( parisishta mantras are those mantras which are not strictly part of Vedas but they are chanted in between Veda mantra sookthas as a custom. In different sakhas, in some places synonyms are also used like baahubhyam is changed to hasthaabhyam and like that .
Arrangements of the mantras in different sakhas: The Rig-Veda mantras are arranged in the saakala saakha as mandala krama. All the mantras of the Rig-Veda has been included in ten mandala. In Bhaashkala saakha the arrangement is in ashtaka as the bunch of eight chapters. There are totally 64 chapters and they are arranged in 8 ashtakas. The Saakala saakha of Rig-Veda has 193816 words which are composed by 397265 letters. There are 10552 Riks (stanzas) which are composed using 193816 words and they are organized in 2024 vargas. These many vargas are included in 64 chapters (adhyaayaas) and eight each of this form ashtakas andhence Saakala saakha of Rig-Veda has 64 adhyaayaas or 8 ashtakas.
Chanting Veda mantras : Veda mantras are chanted in all the Vedic rituals where the materials are offered to fire. All the Vedic rituals are known as offering through Agni using the word swaaha. These mantras play very important role in Somayaga, Aswamedha yaga, Putra kameshti yaga, Vajapeya yaga, and many other yaagas. They are also chanted in some special rituals with the thantra. There are some mantras which are very commonly used, like Purusha sukta, bhagya sukta, Vishnu sukta, Sree Sukta, and so on. They are chanted always. Few mantras are chanted in every rituals.
Fundamental principles of Veda mantra chanting : All these mantras are expected to be chanted with ten sruthies (tones) known as udaattha, anudhaatta, swaritha, repha, hraswa, pracheya, anunaasikaa, kampa, deergha kampa and plutha. Three among these are present in Gayatri mantra. In all the three Vedas Gayatri mantra written by Viswamitra is included.
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