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Samhita is a Sanskrit word from the prefix sam (सम्), 'together', and hita (हित), the past participle of the verbal root dhā (धा) 'put'. [4] [5] The combination word thus means "put together, joined, compose, arrangement, place together, union", something that agrees or conforms to a principle such as dharma or in accordance with justice, and "connected with". [1]
The Brahma Samhita (IAST: Brahma-saṁhitā) is a Sanskrit Pancharatra text, composed of verses of prayer believed to have been spoken by Brahma glorifying Krishna.. It is revered within Gaudiya Vaishnavism, whose 16th-century founder, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534), rediscovered a part of the work, the 62 verses of chapter five, which had previously been lost for a few centuries, at the ...
The Charaka Samhita (IAST: Caraka-Saṃhitā, “Compendium of Charaka ”) is a Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine). [1][2] Along with the Sushruta Samhita, it is one of the two foundational texts of this field that have survived from ancient India. [3][4][5] It is one of the three works that constitute the Brhat Trayi.
Sushruta Samhita Book 1, Chapter XXXIV Translator: Bhishagratna Date The most detailed and extensive consideration of the date of the Suśrutasaṃhitā is that published by Meulenbeld in his History of Indian Medical Literature (1999-2002). Meulenbeld states that the Suśrutasaṃhitā is likely a work that includes several historical layers, whose composition may have begun in the last ...
Siva Samhita, 1.53, translated by James Mallinson Shiva Samhita declares itself to be a yoga text, but also refers to itself as a tantra in its five chapters. The first chapter starts with the statement, states Mallinson, that "there is one eternal true knowledge", then discusses various doctrines of self liberation (moksha) followed by asserting that Yoga is the highest path. The opening ...
The text is layered, consisting of the Samhita, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads. [note 3] The Rigveda Samhita is the core text and is a collection of 10 books (maṇḍala s) with 1,028 hymns (sūkta s) in about 10,600 verses (called ṛc, eponymous of the name Rigveda).
Bhrigu Samhita. Bhrigu as per the Bhrigu Stotram. The Bhṛgu Saṃhitā is a Saṃskṛta astrological (Jyotisha) treatise attributed in its introduction to Bhrigu, one of the "Saptarshis" ("seven sages") of the Vedic period. Its introductory chapter states that it was compiled by the saptarshi uttaradhikari out of compassion for humanity so ...
The Samhitas (Sanskrit saṃhitā, "collection"), are collections of metric texts ("mantras"). There are four "Vedic" Samhitas: the Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda and Atharva-Veda, most of which are available in several recensions (śākhā). In some contexts, the term Veda is used to refer only to these Samhitas, the collection of mantras.