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The Samaveda is an ancient Hindu sacred text focused on melodies and chants, consisting of 1,875 verses mostly drawn from an earlier Vedic scripture called the Rigveda. As one of four foundational Vedas in Hinduism, it served as a liturgical guide and represents an important part of Hindu religious and cultural heritage that has survived in multiple versions across India.
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El Sāmaveda (‘Veda del canto’) es un sagrado texto sánscrito del hinduismo.texto épico-religioso con himnos dedicados a múltiples dioses El 100 % del texto del Sāmaveda proviene del Rigveda (‘el Veda de los himnos’, el libro más antiguo de la literatura de la India, de mediados del II milenio a. C.).Contiene un total de 1810 estrofas (rik), de las cuales 1549 (el 85,6 % del texto) son copiadas del «Sakala Śākha» del Rigveda; otras 75 estrofas (el 4,1 % del texto) son copiadas del «Bashkala sakha» del Rigveda. Las 186 estrofas restantes (el 10,3 %) son repeticiones de las estrofas anteriores.
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