Crossword-Solution: SAMAVEDA 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Some of the foregoing facts strongly support an interpretation which Professor Oldenberg has given of the rules to be observed by a Brahman who would learn a particular hymn of the ancient Indian collection known as the Samaveda.

Whilst the two last priests have assigned to them special liturgical collections of the texts to be used by them, the _Samaveda-samhita_ and _Yajurveda-samhita_ respectively, the Hotri has to deal entirely with hymns and verses taken from the _Rigveda-samhita_, of which they would, however, form only a comparatively small portion.

The Udgatri's duties being mainly confined to the chanting of hymns made up of detached groups of verses of the _Rigveda_, as collected in the Samaveda-samhita, the more important Brahmanas of this sacerdotal class deal chiefly with the various modes of chanting, and the modifications which the verses have to undergo in their musical setting.

Moreover, the performance of chants being almost entirely confined to the Soma-sacrifice, it is only a portion, though no doubt the most important portion, of the sacrificial ceremonial that enters into the subject matter of the Samaveda Brahmamas.

They are the RIGVEDA, a collection of hymns and prayers; the YAJURVEDA, liturgical and ceremonial ordinances; SAMAVEDA, lyrical pieces; and ATHARVAVEDA, chiefly incantations.