post-vedic Samhitas are – Ashtavakra Gita Bhrigu Samhita Charaka Samhita Deva Samhita Garga Samhita Gheranda Samhita Kashyap Samhita Shiva Samhita Brihat...
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Samhita (IAST: Caraka-Saṃhitā, “Compendium of Charaka”) is a Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine). Along with the Sushruta Samhita...
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The Sushruta Samhita (Sanskrit: सुश्रुतसंहिता, lit. 'Suśruta's Compendium', IAST: Suśrutasaṃhitā) is an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine and one of the...
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Yajurveda (redirect from Vajasaneyi Samhita)
recensions of the Krishna Yajurveda – Taittirīya saṃhitā, Maitrayani saṃhitā, Kaṭha saṃhitā and Kapiṣṭhala saṃhitā. A total of eighty six recensions are mentioned...
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Rigveda (redirect from Rigveda samhita)
given. The text is layered, consisting of the Samhita, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads. The Rigveda Samhita is the core text and is a collection of 10...
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Bṛhat-saṃhitā is a 6th-century Sanskrit-language encyclopedia compiled by Varāhamihira in present-day Ujjain, India. Besides the author's area of expertise—astrology...
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Samhitas, which included five lost Samhitas: Vainayaka Samhita, Matr Samhita (or Matrpurana Samhita), Rudraikadasa Samhita, Sahasrakotirudra Samhita and...
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The Valmiki Samhita (Sanskrit: वाल्मीकिसंहिता, romanized: Vālmīkisaṁhitā) is a Sanskrit text of six chapters. It comes under the Narada Panchratra. The...
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Agastya Samhita (IAST: Agastya Saṁhitā; lit. 'Agastya's Compendium') is the title of several works in Sanskrit text attributed to the ancient sage (rishi)...
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Bhela Samhita (IAST: Bhela-saṃhitā, "Compendium of Bhela") is a Sanskrit-language medical text from ancient India. It is known from an incomplete c. 1650...
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Sattvata Samhita or Satvata Samhita is a Pancaratra text dealing with the Vyuha Manifestation. Together with the Pauskara-Samhita and the Jayakhya-Samhita, it...
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The Brahma Samhita (IAST: Brahma-saṁhitā) is a Sanskrit Pancharatra text, composed of verses of prayer believed to have been spoken by Brahma glorifying...
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greater enemy than egoism (ahankara). —Gheranda Samhita, 1.4 Translator: Srisa Chandra Vasu Gheranda Samhita (IAST: gheraṇḍasaṁhitā, घेरंडसंहिता, meaning...
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Shiva Samhita (IAST: śivasaṃhitā, also Siva Samhita, meaning "Shiva's Compendium") is a Sanskrit text on yoga, written by an unknown author. The text...
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The Ahirbudhnya Samhita (Sanskrit: अहिर्बुध्न्यसंहिता, romanized: Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā) is a Hindu Vaishnava text belonging to the Pancharatra tradition...
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Bṛhat Saṃhitā, it is known from excerpts in Utpala's commentary on the Bṛhat Saṃhitā. Samāsa Saṃhitā ("Minor Collection"), also known as Svalpa-saṃhitā ("Shorter...
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The Bhrigu Saṃhitā is a Sanskrit astrological (Jyotisha) treatise attributed in its introduction to Bhrigu, one of the "Saptarishis" ("seven sages") of...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Garga Samhita is the title of several Sanskrit-language texts: Garga-samhita (Garga and Kraushtuki), a 1st century CE...
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medicine, alongside works like the Sushruta Samhita, Charaka Samhita, Bhela Samhita, and Harita Samhita. It is dependent upon the works of the Ayuvedic...
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Atharvaveda (section Samhita)
ancient India is first found in the Caraka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita. Kenneth Zysk adds Bhela Samhita to this list. The verse 11.7.24 of Atharvaveda...
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the Samaveda and the Atharvaveda. Each Veda has four subdivisions – the Samhitas (mantras and benedictions), the Brahmanas (commentaries on and explanation...
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Charaka (section Charaka Samhita)
known as a physician who edited the medical treatise entitled Charaka Samhita, one of the foundational texts of classical Indian medicine and Ayurveda...
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Garga Samhita (Sanskrit: गर्ग संहिता, romanized: Garga-saṃhitā) is a Sanskrit-language Vaishnavite scripture based on the Hindu deities Radha and Krishna...
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Samhita Mukhopadhyay (born May 3, 1978) is an American writer and former executive editor of Teen Vogue. She writes about feminism, culture, race, politics...
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Samhita Vinya is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Kannada films. Samhita Vinya was born in Sakleshpur town of Karnataka state. Later she...
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Yama Samhitâ. Atri Samhitâ. Samvarta Samhitâ. Kâtyayana Samhitâ. Vrihaspati Samhitâ. Daksha Samhitâ. Sâtâtapa Samhitâ. Likhita Samhitâ. Vyâsa Samhitâ. Elysium...
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Skanda Purana (section The six samhitas)
Śaṁkarī Saṁhitā the Vaiṣṇavī Saṁhitā the Brāhmī Saṁhitā and the Saura Saṁhitā The manuscripts of the Sanatkumāra Saṁhitā, the Śaṁkarī Saṁhitā, the Sūta...
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Bhrigu (section Bhrigu Samhita)
The first compiler of predictive astrology and also the author of Bhrigu Samhita, an astrological (jyotisha) classic. Bhrigu is considered a manasaputra...
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The Vasishtha Samhita (Sanskrit: वासिष्ठसंहिता, Vāsiṣṭha Saṁhitā, Vasishtha's Collection) is a 13th-century medieval Vaishnavite text, one of the first...
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Sudarshana Chakra (section Ahirbudhnya Samhita)
millennium CE, most probably at 200 CE. Ahirbudhnya Saṃhita literally means a compendium (samhita) of the serpent-from-the-depths (from ahi for serpent...
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