Samhita

Noun

Meaning

The basic metrical (mantra) text of a Veda.

One of a collection of post-Vedic texts.

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BC 300 Charaka Samhita believed to be the oldest of the three ancient treatises of Ayurvedic medicine, including massage. Source: Internet

BRILL, 1999 page 30. The earliest reference to the idea of non-violence to animals ("pashu-Ahimsa"), apparently in a moral sense, is in the Kapisthala Katha Samhita of the Yajurveda (KapS 31.11), which may have been written in about the 8th century BCE. Source: Internet

Modern linguists consider the metrical hymns of the Rigveda Samhita to be the earliest, composed by many authors over several centuries of oral tradition. Source: Internet

In the 6th century BCE, ancient Indian physician Sushruta asserts in Sushruta Samhita that 63 combinations can be made out of 6 different tastes, taken one at a time, two at a time, etc., thus computing all 2 6 1 possibilities. Source: Internet

See Shiva Samhita, e.g. translation by Mallinson. Source: Internet

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