This meditatively soft authentic rendering is by the Omkar Vedic Sadhana Center and is from the album Vedic Hindu Chants. It contains entire hymn slokas in Devanagari Sanskrit lyrics with English translations. About Purusha Suktam: This Suktam is found in Rig Veda (10.90) and is considered most commonly as a Rig Vedic Hymn. But this Suktam in exact same verses is also contained in the Taittiriya Aranyaka (Krishna Yajur Veda, Taittiriya Samhita: Aranyaka Shakha, Third Prashna -- 3.12 and 3.13) as used for this video. This audio rendition is as per the Krishna Yajur Veda svaras (musical intonations). The Purusha Suktam exact same Hymn also is contained in the Atharvaveda (19.6), Samaveda (6.4) and Yajurveda (VS 31.1-6). The Purusha Suktam has been commented upon in the Shatapatha Brahmana, the Taittiriya Brahmana, the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, Mudgala Upanishad and the Vajasaneyi Samhita (31.1-6). Among Puranic texts, the Sukta has been elaborated upon in the Bhagavata Purana (2.5.35 to 2.6.1-29) and in the Mahabharata (Mokshadharma Parva 351 and 352). The Purusha Suktam is one of the few Rig Vedic hymns still in current daily usage in contemporary Hinduism like the Gayatri mantra. The Purusha Suktam is considered by the Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya (tradition) as one of the Pancha (five key) Suktams. The other four are the Narayana Suktam (all verses uploaded in another video - also containing Devanagari Sanskrit text with English translations), Sri Suktam (also uploaded), Bhu Suktam (uploaded) and the Nila Suktam.

• published: 25 Oct 2011
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