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Saṃhitā

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 353 words | Copyright

Saṃhitā (Skt., ‘joined’, ‘collected’). The collected arrangements of hymns, chants, etc., constituting the Vedas, and thus the basis of Hindu scripture. In origin, the term referred to the connected and continuous style of recitation, and was then applied to the collections of the hymns and chants thus recited.

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