---
type: Reference
bundle: ayurveda-consciousness
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id: kashyapa-samhita
title: Kāśyapa Saṃhitā
description: 'The classical compendium of pediatrics and obstetrics (kaumārabhṛtya), witness to the breadth of the eight-limbed medicine and to constitution and nourishment doctrine applied from conception onward.'
tags:
- reference
- kashyapa-samhita
- kaumarabhritya
timestamp: '2026-07-09'
okf_version: '0.2'
license: CC BY-SA 4.0
---

# Kāśyapa Saṃhitā

The Kāśyapa Saṃhitā, the root text of kaumārabhṛtya (pediatrics, obstetrics, and the care of mother and child), survives incompletely but preserves the application of the constitutional and nourishment doctrines from conception through childhood: prakṛti set at conception, the building of dhātus in the growing body, and regimen scaled to the young. The bundle lists it as the life-beginning witness of the vocabulary.
