Vedic Chanting

• Veda Recitation - Books
  List of books on Vedic Recitation
  
  
• Variations in Vedic Recitation
  "....changes are due to the effect of regional languages and regional pecularities in Sanskrit/Vedic
  pronunciation, like "pracOdayAl" instead of "pracOdayAt" (similarly
  tal-si instead of tat-si) in Nambudiri Vedic recitation."
  
  
• Veda Mantram - Get Free MP3s of Veda Mantras
  "vEda literally means Knowledge. The audio files in the following links present you the Knowledge as discovered by the vEdic R^iShis (Seers). shruti (right intonation) is extremely important for the recitation of the vEda. Please do not attempt to learn the mantras from the audio without the guidance of a qualified guru, since a mantra by definition should only be recited according to the right shruti."
  
  
• The Royal Library - Centre for Orientalia and Judaica - With samples of recitation
  "....the tradition of Vedic recitation would soon disappear, as a result of India's changing social condition.
  Although there had been several attempts to record the Vedic recitation,no complete recording of recensions of all four Vedas was available."
  
  
• Vedic chant: Information From Answers.com
  "The oral tradition of the Vedas (Srauta) consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras. Such a Vedic chant is often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence(dubious assertion—see talk page) . The various pathas are designed to allow the complete and perfect memorization of the text and its pronunciation, including the Vedic pitch accent.
  
  UNESCO proclaimed the tradition of Vedic chant as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on November 7, 2003."
  
  
• Vedic chants - Google Search
  
  
• Vedic Chants - Music India OnLine
  Collection of Vedic Chants and Devotional Music
  
  
• Veda Prasar Samiti
  "During the past decade, Veda Prasar Samiti, formerly Delhi Vedic Trust (a non-profit association), has been distributing recordings of classical chants of Vedas, starting first with Shukla Yajur Veda in 1990 and gradually adding other Vedas over the years. In April 2000, recording of one shaka in its entirety of every Veda had been completed, thanks to the blessings of Garuda Bhagavan referred to in the Vedas themselves as Vedaswarupi or the Repository and the very Form of all Vedas."
  
  
• Sarasvati - Veda - mp3 audio samples
  " We may not, or need not,  know them word by word, but listening to them, in itself is bliss. So here are some .mp3 files of vedic recitations sent by Sri Desiraju Hanumanta Rao, Hyderabad, India. Listen to them daily or on festive occassions or in gloomy moods - they will cheer you up. For additional information please contact him at  www.valmikiramyan.net"
  
  
• The Art of Mantra and Vedic Chant
  "To share Vedic Chant is to share an experience of silence through listening, a process of healing, and a link with nature, the deeper self and the divine."
  - TKV Desikachar
  
  
• Vedic chant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "....the students are first taught the Samhita patha. Other pathas include "vakya", "pada", "karma", "jata", "mala", "sikha", "rekha", "dhvaja", "danda", "ratha", "ghana".
  A pathin is a scholar who has mastered the patha. Thus, a ghanapaathin (or ghanapaati in Telugu) has learnt the chanting of the scripture up to the advanced stage called ghana."
  
  
• Shallow Thoughts to Profound Insights: Veda recitation, women and patriarchy
  "....there is the whole biomechanics theory, which folks are still researching. It is a long held theory that reciting certain vedic mentras, the way and meter in which it is recited causes chemical reactions within the body results in overdose of testosterone and development of certain physical features. this could be the reason why rishis of yesteryears were super potent and could impregnate women at will. it also causes a masculine body structure with flattening of breats etc,. people I argued with have told me that this is the reason why women werent allowed to say it. most 'feminists' who say it today are 'smart' enough to say it after a child birth or two."
  
  
• Vedamu.org
  "This portal is primarily designed to give Vedic literature in its entirety as available in India. Initially, it presents the text of ten Veda Sakhas with five of them carrying the Bhashya by Sayanacharya. Each Veda Sakha contains Samhita, Brahmanam, Aaranyakam and the Upanisads related to it, except a few Veda sakhas that are not known to have Brahmanam, Aaranyakam, Upanisads related to them. Besides the Veda sakhas, it presents Other Upanisads not forming part of the Veda-sakha texts, all the 108 Upanisads in Devanagari script, the Ayurveda texts in Sanskrit and in English and also Gandharvaveda as Upavedas, the Jyotisa texts in Sanskrit, Telugu and Hindi including Vasthu, and Nirukta as Vedangas, Brahma Sutras, Darsanas, Tantra, etc. The ten Veda sakhas and the other texts presented on the portal in Sanskrit are the following."
  
  
• The Hindu : Techniques of Vedic recitation
  "THE VEDAS were transmitted through oral tradition in the Guru-Sishya order, long before writing was invented. To preserve the accuracy of accent and pronunciation, the ancient seers resorted to a phonetic scheme. The Vedic mantras are known as Samhitas which are basic texts..."