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Chants of India is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar released in 1997 on Angel Records.Produced by his friend and sometime collaborator George Harrison, the album consists of Vedic and other Hindu sacred prayers set to music, marking a departure from Shankar's more familiar work in the field of Hindustani classical music.
The oral tradition of the Vedas consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras.Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence, the fixation of the Vedic texts as preserved dating to roughly the time of Homer (early Iron Age or 800 BC).
Cher, dressed in the Indian style, performing the song titled Gayatri Mantra at a concert in Oxon Hill, Maryland (19 March 2017) George Harrison ( The Beatles ): on the life-size statue representing him, unveiled in 2015 in Liverpool , the Gayatri mantra engraved on the belt, to symbolize a landmark event in his life (see picture).
The Samaveda (Sanskrit: सामवेद, IAST: Sāmaveda, from सामन्, "song" and वेद, "knowledge"), is the Veda of melodies and chants. [3] It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, and is one of the sacred scriptures in Hinduism. One of the four Vedas, it is a liturgical text which consists of 1,875 verses.
Chants of India (1997) – available as part of Collaborations box set (2010) Raga Tala (1997) Shankar: Sitar Concertos and Other Works (1998) Shankar: Raga Jogeshwari (1998) Vision of Peace: The Art of Ravi Shankar (2000) Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 (2001) Between Two Worlds (documentary directed by Mark Kidel) (2001) Flowers of India (2007)
Like Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Chandogya is an anthology of texts that must have pre-existed as separate texts, and were edited into a larger text by one or more ancient Indian scholars. [1] The precise chronology of Chandogya Upanishad is uncertain, and it is variously dated to have been composed by the 8th to 6th century BCE in India.
It includes Indian classical music, Kirtan, Bhajan and other musical genres. Raagas are a common form of Hindu music in classical India. [1] The most common Hindu bhajan in North India is "Om Jai Jagdish Hare." The names of Gods are religiously chanted, often including Vishnu and his incarnations, Shiva and the Goddess (Parvati, Shakti ...
Collaborations is a four-disc compilation box set by the Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar and the former Beatle George Harrison.Released in October 2010 on Dark Horse Records, it compiles two studio albums originally issued on that label – the long-unavailable Shankar Family & Friends (1974) and Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India (1976) – and Chants of India, first issued on ...