Shri Veda Bharathi was established with “Preservation of Vedic chantings”, as one of its objectives.
Accordingly Rigveda was taken up for recording all its modes of chantings, viz., moolam, pada paatham, Krama paatham, jata, Maala, Sikha, Rekha, Dhwaja, Danda, Ratha and Ghana.
The present DVD contains the Danda mode of chanting of 8 chapters (out of 64 chapters) of Samhita of Saakala Branch of Rigveda .
To get an idea of the composition:
A statement of Rigveda having six words, will be chanted in the Danda mode, with all the six words pronounced as given below, following the grammar.
This is indicated as
1-2 2-1
1-2 2-3 3-2-1
1-2 2-3 3-4 4-3-2-1
1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-4-3-2-1
1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-5-4-3-2-1