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Among the hymns also I am the Brihatsaman; among metres Gayatri am I; among the montsh I am the Margasirsha; among the seasons (I am) the flowery season.

Among chants I am the Brihat Saman, and among metres, the Gayatri. Among months I am Margashirsha, and among seasons, the flower-bearing spring.

The Brihat Saman is a celebrated chant of the Sama Veda, and the Gayatri is the sacred metre in which the most widely recited Vedic prayer is composed. Among months Krishna names Margashirsha, which falls in late autumn and early winter; it was a pleasant season of harvest and in some old reckonings stood first in the year. Among seasons he is spring, the bringer of flowers. The verse moves from sacred sound to the calendar, suggesting that the divine can be recognised in the rhythm of worship and in the turning of the year alike.