marga

[ mahr-guh ]

noun

, Hinduism.

1. any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods bhakti-marga, of study jnana-marga, and of actions karma-marga.

Word History and Origins

Origin of marga¹

< Sanskrit: path

Example Sentences

The president of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, said she was shocked by the incident and sent her condolences to the victims’ families.

From BBC

To avoid the escalation of an already delicate situation, the government has banned the handling of fire and machines that produce heat in Valparaíso, and the nearby Marga Marga region.

From BBC

For a pen name, she dropped her given name, Sara, and chose Marga, one of the aliases on the false ID she had used when she went into hiding.

From New York Times

In the Netherlands, “Marga Minco is for the older generation just as well known as Anne Frank,” Victor Schiferli, a fiction and poetry specialist with the Dutch Foundation for Literature, said in an interview.

From New York Times

Marga Minco, a Dutch novelist who was one of the last of a generation of European Holocaust authors whose works are widely considered literary classics, died on Monday at her home in Amsterdam.

From New York Times