sāmaveda सामवेद

Definition: m. the first, called ārcika- [or pūrvārcika- or chando-grantha-], contains 585 verses disjoined from their proper sequence in the ṛg-veda- and arranged in 59 daśati-s or decades, which again are subdivided into prapāṭhaka-s and ardha-prapāṭhaka-s


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