asrama

[ ah-shruh-muh ]

noun

, Hinduism.

1. any of the four phases of the ideally conducted life: education, work, withdrawal from society, and asceticism.
2. ashram.

Word History and Origins

Origin of asrama¹

< Sanskrit āśrama. See ashram

Example Sentences

His two best sellers have been “Kelabu,” a racy love story in which a girl hires a fake boyfriend to make her real one jealous, and “Asrama,” a horror story set in a girls’ school.

From New York Times

There shall be no poets whose works may equal the descriptions of this poem, even, as the three other modes called Asrama are ever unequal in merit to the domestic Asrama.

From Project Gutenberg

There shall be no poets whose works may equal the descriptions of this poem, even, as the three other modes called Asrama are ever unequal in merit to the domestic Asrama.

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The only works prerequisite for meditation are those works which are incumbent on a man as a member of a caste or âsrama, and these consist, in the Sûdra's case, in obedience to the higher castes.

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The doubt now arises whether those works are to be performed by him also who merely wishes to fulfil the duties of his âsrama, without aiming at final Release, or not.

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