资源描述：
《娑摩吠陀(SAMAVEDA)(英文版)》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。
1、HymnsoftheSamavedaSacred-textsHinduismHYMNSOFTHESAMAVEDATranslatedwithaPopularCommentaryRalphT.H.Griffith1895PREFACETheSamaveda,orVedaofHolySongs,thirdintheusualorderofenumerationofthethreeVedas,ranksnextinsanctityandliturgicalimportancetotheRgvedaorVedaofRe
2、citedpraise.ItsSanhita,ormetricalportion,consistschieflyofhymnstobechantedbytheUdgatarpriestsattheperformanceofthoseimportantsacrificesinwhichthejuiceoftheSomaplant,clarifiedandmixedwithmilkandotheringredients,wasofferedinlibationtovariousdeities.TheCollecti
3、onismadeupofhymns,portionsofhymns,anddetachedverses,takenmainlyfromtheRgveda,transposedandre-arranged,withoutreferencetotheiroriginalorder,tosuitthereligiousceremoniesinwhichtheyweretobeemployed.Inthesecompiledhymnstherearefrequentvariations,ofmoreorlessimpo
4、rtance,fromthetextoftheRgvedaaswenowpossessitwhichvariations,althoughinsomecasestheyareapparentlyexplanatory,seeminotherstobeolderandmoreoriginalthanthereadingsoftheRgveda.Insinging,theversesarestillfurtheralteredbyprolongation,repetitionandinsertionofsyllab
5、les,andvariousmodulations,rests,andothermodificationsprescribed,fortheguidanceoftheofficiatingpriests,intheGanasorSong-books.Twoofthesemanuals,theGramageyagdna,orCongregational,andtheAranyaganaorForestSong-Book,followtheorderoftheversesofpartI,oftheSanhita,a
6、ndtwoothers,theUhagana,theUhyagana,ofPartII.ThispartislessdisjointedthanpartI,andisgenerallyarrangedintripletswhosefirstverseisoftentherepetitionofaversethathasoccurredinpartI.ThereisnocluetothedateofthecompilationoftheSamavedaHymns,norhasthecompiler'snamebe
7、enhandeddowntous.SuchamanualwasunnecessaryintheearlytimeswhentheAryansfirstcameintoIndia,butwasrequiredforguidanceanduseinthecomplicatedritualelaboratedbytheinvadersaftertheirexpansionandsettlementintheirnewhomes.TherearethreerecensionsofthetextoftheSamaveda
8、Sanhita,theKauthumaSakhaorrecensioniscurrentinGuzerat,theJaiminiyaintheCarnatic,andtheRanayaniyaintheMahrattacountry.Atranslation,byDr.Stevenson,oftheRanayaniyarecension-or,rather,afreeversionof
