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Veda chanting, just like music uses all 7 notes bringing a beautiful quality to the practice.

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Veda – literally means knowledge

The Vedas have been preserved for millennia as they were written down on several manuscripts.

The process of learning the Vedas by listening to and repeating after the teacher, the oral tradition is called (choose the correct answer – there is only 1 correct answer)

The Veda chanting we learn in this course can be referred to as ‘singing’.

Ensuring the correct pronunciation of aspirated sounds is very important for Veda chanting and this rule is called ‘Balam’.

The syllable ṃ is called a Visarga in Sanskrit

This recitation of Oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ shows the correct changing of Visarga ḥ to a ś sound in this example (click play to listen).

https://www.vedastudies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/9-Visarga-exercise-1-shanti.mp3

We learn the Vedas through recitation because (pick all the 3 right answers).