श्रमण (śramaṇa)

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 * श्रमण (śramaṇa in dharmic religion)

Etymology

 * From the root श्रम् (√śram, “to be or become weary or tired, be tired of doing anything”)

Adjective
श्रमण • (śramaṇá)
 * 1) making effort or exertion, toiling, labouring, (esp.) following a toilsome or menial business
 * 2) base, vile, bad
 * 3) naked

Noun
श्रमण • (śramaṇá) m
 * 1) one who performs acts of mortification or austerity, an ascetic, monk, devotee, religious mendicant
 * 2) a Buddhist monk or mendicant (also applied to Buddha himself; also applied to a Jain ascetic now commonly called yati)
 * 3) name of a serpent-demon

Noun
आश्रम • (ā-śrama) m or n
 * 1) hermitage, the abode of ascetics, the cell of a hermit or of retired saints or sages; ashram
 * 2) a stage in the life of a Brahman (of which there are four corresponding to four different periods or conditions, namely 1st, ब्रह्मचारिन् (brahmacārin, “student of the veda”); 2nd, गृहस्थ (gṛha-stha, “householder”); 3rd, वानप्रस्थ (vānaprastha, “anchorite”); and 4th, संन्यासिन् (saṃnyāsin, “abandoner of all worldly concerns”), or sometimes भिक्षु (bhikṣu, “religious beggar”); in some places the law-givers mention only three such periods of religious life, the first being then omitted)
 * 3) hut built on festal occasions
 * 4) college, school
 * 5) wood, thicket
 * 6) (masculine) name of a pupil of Pṛthvī-dhara