Samhita

Samhita

संहिता

saṃhitā "brought together"

a collection of hymns, prayers, blessings, sacrificial formulas;

basic metric texts - hymns and mantras - of each of the four Vedas.

Samhitas also refer to a number of other post-Vedic texts on Yoga and Ayurveda. For example: "Gheranda-samhita", "Kashyapa-samhita", "Ashtavakra-samhita", "Bhrigu-samhita", "Yoga-yajnavalkya-samhita", "Brahma-samhita" and others.