सुकर्मा चापि तच्छिष्य: सामवेदतरोर्महान् । सहस्रसंहिताभेदं चक्रे साम्नां ततो द्विज ॥ ७६ ॥ हिरण्यनाभ: कौशल्य: पौष्यञ्जिश्च सुकर्मण: । शिष्यौ जगृहतुश्चान्य आवन्त्यो ब्रह्मवित्तम: ॥ ७७ ॥
sukarmā cāpi tac-chiṣyaḥ sāma-veda-taror mahān sahasra-saṁhitā-bhedaṁ cakre sāmnāṁ tato dvija hiraṇyanābhaḥ kauśalyaḥ pauṣyañjiś ca sukarmaṇaḥ śiṣyau jagṛhatuś cānya āvantyo brahma-vittamaḥ
- sukarmā
- Sukarmā
- ca
- and
- api
- indeed
- tat-śiṣyaḥ
- the disciple of Jaimini
- sāma-veda-taroḥ
- of the tree of the Sāma Veda
- mahān
- the great thinker
- sahasra-saṁhitā
- of one thousand collections
- bhedam
- a division
- cakre
- he made
- sāmnām
- of the sāma-mantras
- tataḥ
- and then
- dvija
- O brāhmaṇa (Śaunaka)
- hiraṇyanābhaḥ kauśalyaḥ
- Hiraṇyanābha, the son of Kuśala
- pauṣyañjiḥ
- Pauṣyañji
- ca
- and
- sukarmaṇaḥ
- of Sukarmā
- śiṣyau
- the two disciples
- jagṛhatuḥ
- took
- ca
- and
- anyaḥ
- another
- āvantyaḥ
- Āvantya
- brahma-vit-tamaḥ
- most perfectly realized in knowledge of the Absolute Truth
Sukarmā, another disciple of Jaimini, was a great scholar. He divided the mighty tree of the Sāma Veda into one thousand saṁhitās. Then, O brāhmaṇa, three disciples of Sukarmā — Hiraṇyanābha, the son of Kuśala; Pauṣyañji; and Āvantya, who was very advanced in spiritual realization — took charge of the sāma-mantras.