Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashramas
Literary usage of Ashramas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hinduism: The World Ideal by Harendranath Maitra (1922)
"... CHAPTER IV THE FOUR ashramas THE Ashrama life is the very root of the ...
a spirit of self-detachment in the four stages—or the four ashramas—of life. ..."
2. Ancient Ideals in Modern Life: Four Lectures Delivered at the Twenty-fifth by Annie Wood Besant (1901)
"THE FOUR ashramas. BROTHERS: For five and twenty years the Theosophical Society
has been at work in the world, carrying out, amid many difficulties and ..."
3. Indian Caste by John Wilson (1877)
"Yudhishthira on the subject of Caste, in which the exaltation of the Brahman,
his four ashramas, and his six works, are specified in the usual form; ..."
4. The experiences of a planter in the jungles of Mysore by Robert Henry Elliot (1871)
"Tuka says,—' This is the fruit of ashramas,* The climax of asceticism. ...
The " ashramas " arc the four divisions of a Brahmin's life—bachelorhood, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith (1921)
"Normally a man was expected to pass through the four ashramas (qv) of student,
householder, hermit and ascetic. In this last stage he abandoned everything, ..."
6. Criminal Victimisation in the Developing World edited by Ugljesa Zvekic, Anna Alvazzi Del Frate (1996)
"In the Indian context, marriage is treated as the performance of one of the
dharmas and as passing through different ashramas (stages) to become a full man. ..."
7. Adventure Guide Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia by Janet Arrowood (2006)
"He reinstated Angkor as the capital, and started to build the mountain-temple of
Pre Rup which was sited on top of the ashramas built by ..."
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