saṃskāra | संस्कार | saMskAra
saṃ-skāra | सं-स्कार | m. (ifc. f(A). ) putting together, forming well, making perfect, accomplishment, embellishment, adornment, purification, cleansing, making ready, preparation, dressing (of food), refining (of metals), polishing (of gems), rearing (of animals or plants), GṛŚrS.; MBh.; Kāv., &c.
cleansing the body, toilet, attire, Hariv.
forming the mind, training, education, R.; Ragh.
correction (also in an astronomical sense, Sūryas.), correct formation or use of a word, Nir.; Sarvad.
correctness, purity (esp. of pronunciation or expression), MBh.; R. &c.
making sacred, hallowing, consecration, Mn.; MBh. &c.
a sacred or sanctifying ceremony, one which purifies from the taint of sin contracted in the womb and leading to regeneration (12 such ceremonies are enjoined on the first three or twice-born classes in Mn. ii, 27, viz. 1. garBāḍāna | गर्Bआडान |, 2. puṃ-savana | पुं-सवन |, 3. sīmantonnayana | सीमन्तोन्नयन |, 4. jāta-karman | जात-कर्मन् |, 5. nāmakarman | नामकर्मन् |, 6. niśkramaṛa | निश्क्रमऋअ |, 7. anna-prāṣana | अन्न-प्राषन |, 8. cūqā-karman | चूक़ा-कर्मन् |, 9. upanayana | उपनयन |, 10. keṣānta | केषान्त |, 11. samāvartana | समावर्तन |, 12. vivāha | विवाह |, qq.vv.; accord. to Gaut. viii, 8 &c. there are 40 Saṃskāras), GṛS.; Mn.; MBh. &c. (IW. 188; 192 &c., RTL. 353)
the ceremony performed on a dead body (i.e. cremation), R.
any purificatory ceremony, W.
the faculty of memory, mental impression or recollection, impression on the mind of acts done in a former state of existence (one of the 24 qualities of the Vaiśeṣikas, including Bāvanā | Bआवना |, ‘the faculty of reproductive imagination’), Kaṇ.; Sarvad. (IW. 69)
(pl., with Buddhists) a mental conformation or creation of the mind (such as that of the external world, regarded by it as real, though actually non-existent, and forming the second link in the twelvefold chain of causation or the fourth of the 5 Skandhas), Dharmas. 22; 42
a polishing stone, MW.
cleansing the body, toilet, attire, Hariv.
forming the mind, training, education, R.; Ragh.
correction (also in an astronomical sense, Sūryas.), correct formation or use of a word, Nir.; Sarvad.
correctness, purity (esp. of pronunciation or expression), MBh.; R. &c.
making sacred, hallowing, consecration, Mn.; MBh. &c.
a sacred or sanctifying ceremony, one which purifies from the taint of sin contracted in the womb and leading to regeneration (12 such ceremonies are enjoined on the first three or twice-born classes in Mn. ii, 27, viz. 1. garBāḍāna | गर्Bआडान |, 2. puṃ-savana | पुं-सवन |, 3. sīmantonnayana | सीमन्तोन्नयन |, 4. jāta-karman | जात-कर्मन् |, 5. nāmakarman | नामकर्मन् |, 6. niśkramaṛa | निश्क्रमऋअ |, 7. anna-prāṣana | अन्न-प्राषन |, 8. cūqā-karman | चूक़ा-कर्मन् |, 9. upanayana | उपनयन |, 10. keṣānta | केषान्त |, 11. samāvartana | समावर्तन |, 12. vivāha | विवाह |, qq.vv.; accord. to Gaut. viii, 8 &c. there are 40 Saṃskāras), GṛS.; Mn.; MBh. &c. (IW. 188; 192 &c., RTL. 353)
the ceremony performed on a dead body (i.e. cremation), R.
any purificatory ceremony, W.
the faculty of memory, mental impression or recollection, impression on the mind of acts done in a former state of existence (one of the 24 qualities of the Vaiśeṣikas, including Bāvanā | Bआवना |, ‘the faculty of reproductive imagination’), Kaṇ.; Sarvad. (IW. 69)
(pl., with Buddhists) a mental conformation or creation of the mind (such as that of the external world, regarded by it as real, though actually non-existent, and forming the second link in the twelvefold chain of causation or the fourth of the 5 Skandhas), Dharmas. 22; 42
a polishing stone, MW.