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Definition of Samhita

1. Noun. One of four collections of sacred texts.

Definition of Samhita

1. Noun. The basic metrical (mantra) text of a Veda. ¹

2. Noun. One of a collection of post-Vedic texts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Samhita

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney (1904)
"Meantime a few words may be said about their value for the criticism of the structure of the Samhita. Bearing of the ritual Sutras upon the criticism of the ..."

2. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund, Edward Byles Cowell, Frederick William Thomas (1908)
"May we not be severed from thy sight. Mind undeceived, living eye, sun best of lights. Consecration, harm me not. (1.) Then follows the Samhita Upanisad. ..."

3. Stories from the Classic Literature of Many Nations by Bertha Palmer (1898)
"LEGEND OF THE WINGED MOUNTAINS From the MAITRAYANI Samhita, 1,10,13, translated by AVW JACKSON. Selection from the BRAHMANA LITERATURE THE mountains were ..."

4. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
"|_The details have been discussed above (see p. cxxi), and with as much fulness as seemed worth while.J 8. Metrical Form of the Atharvan Samhita ..."

5. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney (1904)
"SPP. gives as his pada-\Kx.\. citra : ima, which leaves the samhita reading unaccounted for; the comm. assumes ..."

6. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney (1904)
"Meantime a few words may be said about their value for the criticism of the structure of the Samhita. Bearing of the ritual Sutras upon the criticism of the ..."

7. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund, Edward Byles Cowell, Frederick William Thomas (1908)
"May we not be severed from thy sight. Mind undeceived, living eye, sun best of lights. Consecration, harm me not. (1.) Then follows the Samhita Upanisad. ..."

8. Stories from the Classic Literature of Many Nations by Bertha Palmer (1898)
"LEGEND OF THE WINGED MOUNTAINS From the MAITRAYANI Samhita, 1,10,13, translated by AVW JACKSON. Selection from the BRAHMANA LITERATURE THE mountains were ..."

9. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
"|_The details have been discussed above (see p. cxxi), and with as much fulness as seemed worth while.J 8. Metrical Form of the Atharvan Samhita ..."

10. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney (1904)
"SPP. gives as his pada-\Kx.\. citra : ima, which leaves the samhita reading unaccounted for; the comm. assumes ..."

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