Definition of Shastra

1. shaster [n -S] - See also: shaster

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shastra

shash
shashed
shashes
shashing
shashlick
shashlicks
shashlik
shashliks
shaslik
shasliks
shasta daisy
shastasaurid
shastasaurids
shaster
shasters
shastra (current term)
shastras
shatei
shatei gashira
shatoosh
shatranj
shatter
shatter box
shatter boxes
shatterable
shatterbox
shatterboxes
shattered

Literary usage of Shastra

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

1. The Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda: Containing the Earliest Speculations by Bombay (India : State). Educational Dept, Martin Haug (1863)
"... The Asuras having been turned out from this place, entered the shastra of ... The Asuras after having been turned out from it entered the shastra of the ..."

2. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"The better organization of armies in modern times, and particularly the introduction of tirailleurs (qv), has caused them to be abolished. shastra ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"The better organization of armies in modern times, and particularly the introduction of tirailleurs (qv), has caused them to be abolished. shastra ..."

4. An Epitome of the History of Philosophy: Being the Work Adopted by the by Louis Bautain, Caleb Sprague Henry (1859)
"... that virtue is at the bottom nothing but the simple development of the intelligence, and that actions are indifferent. Yoga shastra, or the Sankhya of ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"... and particularly the introduction of tirailleurs (qv), has caused them to be abolished. SHAWLS. (For the Cashmere shawls, see Cashmere.} shastra ..."

6. An Epitome of the History of Philosophy: Being the Work Adopted by the by Louis Bautain, Caleb Sprague Henry (1841)
"... that virtue is at the bottom nothing but the simple development of the intelligence, and that actions are indifferent. Yoga shastra, or the Sankhya of ..."

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