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Chant
Repeated sung or spoken formula. Liturgy, work songs, and mantra practice meet here without one chant essence.
Vedic tradition
Chant appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda is sung and chanted in ritual recitation. A named chant speech in that collection, not hymn as the praise-poem class already filed and not mantra as the formula word alone.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Buddhist traditions
Chant appears in Buddhist traditions.
Watson’s Lotus Sūtra repeatedly urges hearing, keeping, reading, and chanting the sūtra’s verses. A named chant/recitation job in that Mahāyāna book, not Rigveda chant alone and not a work-song dump.
from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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sources
- The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.
- The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)
Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.