It includes Sanskrit verses on spiritual devotion, it's prescribed practices, virtues of faith, wisdom and self-control, etc.
[2][3] Devashree Narada and Maharshi Shandilya were two major followers of Pancharatra Bhakti tradition in the ancient period of the Indian Subcontinent.
Similarly, it is said that when Maharshi Shandilya did not find the ultimate goal even in the four Vedas, he took refuge in Pancharatra and got indescribable satisfaction from it.
Shandilya Samhita is one of the important text that form the expansion of Pancharatra literature in Hindu tradition.
[9] In the modern times, professor Anant Shastri Fadke of Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi, introduced the present version of Shandilya Samhita.
It was later edited by Gopinath Kaviraj and again later forword by the vice chancellor Mandan Mishra of Sampoornanand Sanskrit University in 1996[10] The original Shandilya Samhita contains five sections (Khanda) on Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha and Bhakti.