History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.90

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close study of the sāmans may read the following: The Pañca-vidha-sūtra, edited by Dr. Richard Simon (Breslau, 1913); Sāyaṇa's introduction to his commentary on the Sāmaveda in vol. I. of the B. I. edition; Nāradīya-śikṣā published in the Benares Sanskrit series; Satyavrata Sāmaśramī's learned notes in his edition of the Sāmaveda in five volumes (in B. I. Series); Burnell's Introduction to Sāmavidhāna Brāhmaṇa (1873), Introduction to the Jaiminīya text of the Ārṣeya Brāhmaṇa (1878, where on p. XV he gives diagrams of the hand and fingers employed in indicating the chanting of the sāmans), Introduction to Ṛktantra-vyākaraṇa, particularly p. XXXVIII (1879); 'the Vedic chant studied in its textual and melodic form' by J. M. Van der Hoogt (Wageningen, Holland, 1929) which presents a special study of *stobhas*; translation (with notes and Introduction) of the Pañcaviṁśa Brāhmaṇa by Dr. Caland (in the B. I. series, 1931); the Introduction to the recent edition of the Sāmaveda brought out by Pandit Sātavaḷekar at Aundh (1939); 'the Music of Hindostan' by A. H. Fox Strangways (Oxford, 1914), particularly pp. 249-279; a booklet 'the Ancient Mode of singing sāmagāna' by Mr. Lakṣmaṇa Śaṁkarabhaṭṭa Drāviḍa of Poona. It may, however, be stated here that even on reading these books no thorough knowledge of sāmagānas can be acquired. Thorough investigation and research have yet to be made in these gānas and the first endeavour must be to collect gramophone records of the methods of chanting adopted throughout India and then compare them. A generation or two hence, it is feared, hardly any learned sāma singers will be left.