Open a translation of a Sanskrit medical compendium and look at a single page before reading its advice. Is there a numbered passage, a paragraph underneath, and perhaps a footnote? Those voices may belong to different centuries. A translator explaining an unfamiliar term is doing something quite different from translating a line of the text.
Samhita means a collection or compilation. The Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita are influential examples. When two English versions differ, copy the chapter and passage number beside each rendering. Underline the word on which they disagree. Sometimes the disagreement is less about the original sentence than about the modern word chosen to stand for it.
For a reading group, give everyone the same short passage and ask where the translator has supplied an explanation. That small exercise makes a better introduction than a list of quotations detached from their chapters. An old instruction also deserves historical context before anyone treats it as advice for today.
Further reading: Indian perspectives on Ayurveda (NEIAH)