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Definition of Shaster
1. n. A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas.
Definition of Shaster
1. a holy writing [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shaster
Literary usage of Shaster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah: Written Previous To, and by Elizabeth Hamilton (1811)
"By the indulgence of my English friend I was favoured with the perusal of the
Christian shaster.* The precepts it contains, are simple, pure, and powerful; ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"... organization of armies in modern times, and particularly the introduction of
tirailleurs (qv), has caused them to be abolished. SHASTRA, or shaster. ..."
3. Essay on the "Scripture Doctrines of Adultery and Divorce, and on the by Henry Virtue Tebbs (1822)
"The shaster is every where replete with nice discriminations of ... These laws
of the shaster except the Brahmins, and apply to the upper castes; ..."
4. The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Including His Contributions to the by Sydney Smith (1859)
"Now the English have taken the country, and it 'is getting full of whites.
Now also the white man's shaster is publishing. ..."
5. Human Sacrifices in India: Substance of the Speech of John Poynder, Esq. at by John Poynder (1827)
"... from the shaster. [See Vol.5, pp. 8 and9.] These, however, are expressly made
criminal by the 21st " sities of the Natives, and derange and obstruct ..."
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