I am considered as the embodied form of the Rich Veda consisting of twenty-one thousand verses. Persons well-versed in the Vedas also call me the embodiment of the Samans of a thousand branches. Thus do learned Brahmanas who are my devoted worshippers and who are few in number sing me in the Aranyakas.
एकविंशतिसाहस्रं ऋग्वेदं मां प्रचक्षते। सहस्रशाखं यत् साम ये वै वेदविदो जनाः॥ गायत्त्यारण्यके विप्रा मद्भक्तास्ते हि दुर्लभाः।