Samhita, however, in contemporary literature typically implies the earliest, archaic part of the Vedas.
The Vedas have been divided into four styles of texts - the Samhitas (mantras and benedictions), the Aranyakas (text on rituals, ceremonies, sacrifices and symbolic-sacrifices), the Brahmanas (commentaries on rituals, ceremonies and sacrifices), and the Upanishads (text discussing meditation, philosophy and spiritual knowledge) [REF].