Samhitan.
/samhɪˈtɑː/ A text treated according to sandhi; a version of the vedas which is the continuous text formed from the pada or separate words by the appropriate phonetic sound changes. Also attributive.
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1805 H. T. Colebrooke in Asiatick Researches 8 476 Tradition..reckons sixteen Sanhitas of the Rigveda.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 171/1 The Rĭgveda is the first in order and its Sanhitâ contains mantras..to the elemental deities.
1887 M. Monier-Williams Brāhmanism & Hindūism (ed. 3) xv. 409 These Vedic texts may be recited according to any one or more of the five different Pāthas, or modes of recitation, called Samhitā, Pada, Krama, Jaṭā, and Ghana.
1917 A. A. Macdonell Vedic Reader for Students p. xiii The earliest expedient of this kind was the formation of the Pada or ‘word’ text, in which all the words of the Saṃhitā text are separated and given in their original form as unaffected by the rules of Sandhi.
1920 J. N. Farquhar Outl. Relig. Lit. India i. 26 The Veda as handed down in the various schools..soon showed considerable differences. It has come down to us in four distinct forms called Saṁhitās.
1953 in K. W. Morgan Relig. of Hindus vii. 265 The Upaniṣhads are the philosophic and mystical elaboration of the truths first revealed to the Seers and recorded in the Saṁhitās.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 375/3 The foremost collection, or Samhitā, of such hymns..is the Ṛgveda.
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