The Samaveda is 95% copied from the Rigveda — and the most radical scripture India ever produced. The words were never the point. The melody was: stretching those borrowed syllables across the fire gave the world the seven-note scale every Indian musician still sings. The Veda that had to be sung.
The Samaveda is 95% copied from the Rigveda — and the most radical scripture India ever produced. The words were never the point. The melody was: stretching those borrowed syllables across the fire gave the world the seven-note scale every Indian musician still sings. The Veda that had to be sung.
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