Kauthuma Samhita

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Kauthuma Samhita (Sanskrit: कौथुम संहिता) is a Samhita branch of the text Samaveda in Hinduism. It belongs to the Kauthuma Shakha. The Samhita of Kauthuma consists of traditional recitation of Samaveda. It consists two of parts. The first part is comprised by original verses which are majorly taken from the text Rigaveda. Similarly the second part consists of Gaanas which are based on the original verses. The Kauthuma branch of Samaveda is majorly followed in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent.[1][2][3][4] In the Mithila region of the subcontinent, it is followed by the Chandogic Brahmins of the Maithil Brahmins community.[5]

Copy of the 1672 CE manuscript on paper of the 10th century BCE Samaveda's Kauthuma Samhita Veyagana kept at Schoyen Collection near Oslo in Norway. (MS 5293) - Photographed by Ms Sarah Welch

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