A third group of priests, headed by the udgatri (“chanter”), performed melodic recitations linked to verses that were drawn almost entirely from the Rigveda but were arranged as a separate Samhita, the Samaveda (“Knowledge of the Chants”). Those mantras and verses were drawn into the Samhita known as the Yajurveda (“Knowledge of the Sacrifice”). Sacred formulas known as mantras were recited by the adhvaryu, the priest responsible for the sacrificial fire and for carrying out the ceremony. The foremost collection, or Samhita, of such poems, from which the hotri (“reciter”) drew the material for his recitations, is the Rigveda (“Knowledge of the Verses”). They praised a wide pantheon of gods, some of whom personified natural and cosmic phenomena, such as fire ( Agni), the Sun ( Surya and Savitri), dawn (Ushas, a goddess), storms (the Rudras), and rain ( Indra), while others represented abstract qualities such as friendship ( Mitra), moral authority ( Varuna), kingship (Indra), and speech (Vach, a goddess). The hymns formed a liturgical body that in part grew up around the soma ritual and sacrifice and were recited or chanted during rituals. No definite date can be ascribed to the composition of the Vedas, but the period of about 1500–1200 bce is acceptable to most scholars. Veda, (Sanskrit: “Knowledge”) a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic Sanskrit by Indo-European-speaking peoples who lived in northwest India during the 2nd millennium bce. Several of these works, notably the three oldest Vedas, are recited with subtleties of intonation and rhythm that have been handed down orally from the early days of Vedic religion in India. The entire corpus of Vedic literature-the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads-is considered Shruti (“What Is Heard”) and have been preserved orally.
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