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    The Samaveda (Sanskrit: सामवेद, IAST: Sāmaveda, from सामन्, "song" and वेद, "knowledge"), is the Veda of melodies and chants. It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit...
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  • Samhita (IAST: Saṃhitā) literally means "put together, joined, union", a "collection", and "a methodically, rule-based combination of text or verses"....
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    Vedas (section Samaveda)
    includes: The Samhitas (Sanskrit saṃhitā, "collection"), are collections of metric texts ("mantras"). There are four "Vedic" Samhitas: the Rig-Veda,...
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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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    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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    Caraka-Saṃhitā, the Bheḷa-Saṃhitā, and the medical portions of the Bower Manuscript. The Sushruta Samhita was perhaps composed after Charaka Samhita and...
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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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  • Atharvaveda (section Samhita)
    contemporary with the Yajurveda mantras, the Rigvedic Khilani, and the Sāmaveda. There is no absolute dating of any Vedic text including the Atharvaveda...
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  • The 8 Samhitas authored by Mareechi are Jaya saṃhitā, Ananda saṃhitā, Saṃjnāna saṃhitā, Vīra saṃhitā, Vijaya saṃhitā, Vijita saṃhitā, Vimala saṃhitā, Jnāna...
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  • Pāñcarātra saṃhitā texts Ahirbudhnya Saṃhitā Jayākhya saṃhitā Pārameśvara saṃhitā Pauśkara saṃhitā Pādma saṃhitā Nāradīya saṃhitā Haṃsaparameśvara saṃhitā Lakṣmī...
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    Kapila-saṃhitā Kāśyapa-saṃhitā Kāśyapottara-saṃhitā Khagapraśna-saṃhitā Khagendra-saṃhitā Khageśvara-saṃhitā Gajendra-saṃhitā Garga-saṃhitā Govinda-saṃhitā Gautama-saṃhitā...
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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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  • Atharvaveda (Paippalada and Shaunakiya), the Ṛg·veda Khilani, the Samaveda Saṃhitā, and the mantras of the Yajurveda. These texts are largely derived...
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    Brahmana (section Samaveda)
    Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणम्, IAST: Brāhmaṇam) are Vedic śruti works attached to the Samhitas (hymns and mantras) of the Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva Vedas. They are...
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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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  • Aranyaka Samhita is not a typical Aranyaka text: rather the Purvarchika of the Samaveda Samhitas has a section of mantras, called the 'Aranyaka Samhita', on...
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  • Sam-Samhitas, refers to Samhitas of Samaveda, which consists of mantras or hymns in the form of songs and are meant for liturgy. Ancient Indian Scriptures...
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  • Pradesh and Gujarat but this is not certain. The main saṃhitā for Śākala Sākhā is the Śākala Saṃhitā and the corresponding brahmana is Aitareya Brāhmaṇa...
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  • songs attributed to different branches. Shri Satvalekar in preface to Sāmaveda Samhita has given the following table of songs. Fox Strangways in Music of...
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  • Manusmriti (redirect from Manu Saṃhitā)
    Bhatt, Bombay, 1913. Ramacandra Varma Shastri, Manusmr̥ti: Bhāratīya ācāra-saṃhitā kā viśvakośa, Śāśvata Sāhitya Prakāśana, 1997. [ISBN missing] The Institutes...
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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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    what life was like at the time. The earliest of the Vedas, the Ṛgveda Saṃhitā, contains 1,028 hymns, some of which may be as old as 1500 BCE. Because...
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    metric and musical traditions of the Vedic era, particularly the Samaveda. The Samaveda Samhita is not meant to be read as a text, but sung as it is like a...
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  • includes the four Vedas including its four types of embedded texts – the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas and the Upanishads. Of the Shrutis, the Upanishads...
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  • The Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts: Facsimile Edition of Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā 1–20 (Saṃhitā- and Padapāṭha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE) 93 2018...
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    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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  • (Vedic) school" (śākhābhedaḥ). Each school would learn a specific Vedic Saṃhita (one of the "four Vedas" properly so-called), as well as its associated...
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    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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  • Yajurveda. Most prevalent in South India, it consists of the Taittirīya Samhita ('TS'), Taittirīya Brahmana ('TB'), Taittirīya Aranyaka ('TA'), and Taittirīya...
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  • Veda/Mandala 10/Hymn 125 Devīsūkta Ṛgveda Online Rao, P. Venkata (1955): Ṛgveda Saṃhitā with Sāyaṇa's bhāṣya, Vol. 30. Śṛī Śāradā Press, Mysore, Karnataka, India...
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