Definition of Asramas

1. asrama [n] - See also: asrama

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asramas

asporting
asports
asporulate
aspout
asprawl
aspread
asprin
aspron
asprons
asprout
asps
aspulvinone dimethylallyltransferase
asquat
asquint
asrama
asramas (current term)

Literary usage of Asramas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Hibbert Lectures by Hibbert Trust (1880)
"The four stages or asramas. A much more important feature, however, of the ancient Vedic society than the four castes, consists in the four ..."

2. The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy by Max E Muller, Friedrich Max Müller (1919)
"... known before the rise of Buddhism, and taken over by the Buddhists from the Vedic Brahmans. Socially, the only asramas that remained among the Buddhists ..."

3. The Hindu Law of Impartible Property Including Endowments by Jogendra Chundra Ghose (1908)
"his opinion that the famous theory of asramas was a post-Buddha device of Brahmins ... Indeed it seems that this theory of the asramas was the ideal of life ..."

4. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"The Hindus accordingly have divided the life of the individual into distinct periods—asramas, as they say; in the earlier ..."

5. The English Review (1846)
"... is also frequently mentioned, and the Vaisya and Sudra are not unnoticed, so are the distinctions of the asramas or orders of the three first castes, ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1848)
"Various adventures of the first princes and the most famous sages occur in this vicinity ; and the asramas, or religious domiciles of several of the latter, ..."

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