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Updated: May 22, 2025
The name however appears to be strictly speaking applicable to a system or body of doctrine and the usual term for the books in which this system is expounded is Saṃhitâ. All previous discussions and speculations about these works, of which little was known until recently, are superseded by Schrader's publication of the Ahirbudhnya Saṃhitâ, which appears to be representative of its class.
The names of over two hundred are cited and of these more than thirty are known to be extant in MS. The majority were composed in north-western India but the Pâncarâtra doctrine spread to the Dravidian countries and new Saṃhitâs were produced there, the chief of which, the Îśvara Saṃhitâ, can hardly be later than 800 A.D. Of the older works Schrader thinks that the Ahirbudhnya was written in Kashmir between 300 and 800 A.D. and perhaps as early as the fourth century.
It attaches great importance to the Cakra, the wheel or discus which denotes Vishṇu's will to be, to evolve and maintain the universe, and it may have contributed some ideas to the very late form of Buddhism called Kâlacakra. This very word is used in the Ahirbudhnya Saṃhitâ as the name of one of the many wheels engaged in the work of evolution.
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