Samhita Definition

sŭmhĭt-ə
noun
Any of the collections of sacred hymns constituting the metrical portions of the Vedas.
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Other Word Forms of Samhita

Noun

Singular:
samhita
Plural:
samhitas

Origin of Samhita

  • Sanskrit saṃhitā collection from feminine past participle of samdadhāti he puts together, collects sam together sem-1 in Indo-European roots dadhāti he puts dhē- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Sanskrit [script?] (saṃhita) joined, collected.

    From Wiktionary

Samhita Sentence Examples

  • Like the other Vedas it is divided into Samhita, Brahmanas and Upanishads, representing the spiritual element and its magical and nationalistic development.

  • The mantras or sayings composing the Samhita of the Atharva Veda differ from those of the other Vedas by being in the form of spells rather than prayers or hymns, and seem to indicate a stage of religion lower than that of the Rig Veda.

  • Thus the most prominent subdivision of the older school, the Taittiriyas, in their Samhita, have treated the main portion of the ceremonial in this promiscuous fashion, and to add to the confusion they have, by way of supplement, put forth a so-called Taittiriya-brahmana, which, so far from being a real Brahmana, merely deals with some additional rites in the same confused mixture of sacrificial formulae and dogmatic explanations.

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SSASAM

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ATAITA

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