Samhita
संहिता saṃhitāThe 'collection': the oldest layer of each Veda, the core body of hymns or ritual formulas.
Where this term appears
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
The oldest layer is the Samhita , the collection of hymns and mantras.
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
According to the Vishnu Purana , Vyasa produced an original Purana Samhita, a foundational collection, and entrusted it to his disciple Lomaharshana, the bard of the Suta caste (Vishnu Purana 3.4, Wilson trans.…
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
The end of the Veda The Veda, in the traditional reckoning, has four kinds of content stacked in sequence. There are the Samhitas , the hymns.
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
At the base sits the Samhita ( SUNG-hi-ta ), the "collection": the core hymns or formulas themselves, the oldest material.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
The earliest full lists are in the Taittiriya Samhita (4.4.10.1-3) and the Atharvaveda (19.7).
- Āgama and Veda: two revelations Lineages
The Veda and the Āgama are the two revelations of Hinduism. The Veda is śruti, "heard," held to be authorless and eternal; the Āgama or Tantra is the revealed word…
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
He worked in the orbit of Ujjain, and his great compendium, the Brihat Samhita , the Great Compilation, devotes its fifty-sixth chapter to prasada-lakshana , the characteristics of temples.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It listed a hundred and sixteen Pancharatra samhitas , the scriptures of the Vaishnava tantric tradition.