Sama Veda Motilal Banarsidass several abstruse-looking and recondite parts

several abstruse-looking and recondite parts of the Vedas as "sheer-non-sense'v=or as "infant-humanity's prattle"

the influence of the Veda is clear

which is beyond their jurisdiction

as well as Mimamsa and Vedanta with their sub-traditions

some known and quite many less known

Sama Veda Motilal Banarsidass several abstruse-looking and recondite partsThe Vedas, as it is claimed, are eternal and believed to be the revelation of divine wisdom to inspire the rsis of old. The Sama Veda is one of four Vedas which had been handed to us over a period of thousands of years by oral tradition, without an error of even a syllable, before they were reduced to writing in very recent times. The Vedas are of varying lengths with varying numbers of mantras or hymns. The present work contains the whole text of