The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c27.s7.60

v1.c27.s7.60

The evidence clearly does not allow us to say whether the Sāman singers were, or were not, present in the earliest form of the Soma sacrifice: the absence of their names from the Avestan list and the list of the seven Hotṛs might be cited in support of such a view, but at the same time the argument could not be pressed: the songs might easily have been chanted by some other priest—as by the Potṛ—before the Sāman singers came into existence.