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Samhita (Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
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Samhita (Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
  "joined" or "collected") may refer to"
  • the basic metrical (mantra) text of each of the Vedas
    Vedas

    The Vedas are a large body of texts originating in History of India. They form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest Hindu scripture of Hinduism....
    • specifically, these texts with sandhi
      Sandhi

      Sandhi is a cover term for a wide variety of phonology processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries . Examples include the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words....
       applied (see Vedic chant
      Vedic chant

      The oral tradition of the Vedas consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras. Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence, the fixation of the samhita texts as preserved dating to roughly the time of Homer ....
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  • post-Vedic texts known as Samhitas:
    • Gherand Samhita
      Gherand Samhita

      Gheranda Samhita meaning ?Gheranda's collection? is one of the three classic texts of hatha yoga . It is a late 17th century text and is considered to be the most encyclopedic of the three classic texts on hatha yoga....
    • Charak Samhita
      Charaka

      Charaka, sometimes spelled Caraka, born c. 300 BC in a Maga Brahmin family was one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle thought to be developed about 5000 years ago in Ancient India....
    • Kashyap Samhita
      Kashyap Samhita

      Kashyap Samhita , also known as Braddha Jivakiya Tantra, is an important treatise on Ayurveda medicine written in History of India by the sage Kashyap, since it is suffixed as a Samhita which means means "Compilation of Knowledge", he was probably one of the first compilers of the ancient knowledge ....
    • Ashtavakra Samhita
    • Bhrigu Samhita
      Bhrigu Samhita

      The Bhrigu Samhita is an astrology classic attributed to Bhrigu during the Vedic civilization period, Treta yuga, although the available evidence suggests that it was compiled over a period of time by the various sishyas of Maharishi Bhrigu....
    • Yogayajnavalkya Samhita
      Yogayajnavalkya Samhita

      The Yogayajnavalkya Samhita is a classical treatise on Yoga attributed to Yajnavalkya. It takes the form of a dialogue between Yajnavalkya and his wife Gargi....
    • Brahma Samhita
      Brahma Samhita

      The Brahma Samhita is a Sanskrit Pancaratra text, comprised of verses of prayer spoken by Brahma to Govinda or Krishna at the beginning of Creation myth....
    • Garga Samhita
      Garga Samhita

      Garga Samhita is a book written by the sage Garga and deals with the life of Krishna.The several "khanda" or chapters of the book are :* Goloka-khanda...
    • Deva Samhita
      Deva Samhita

      Deva Samhita or Devasamhita is a collection of Sanskrit hymns by Gorakh Sinha during the early medieval period. It propounded the theory of Origin of Jats from Shiva's Locks....