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Definition of Ashrams
1. ashram [n] - See also: ashram
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashrams
Literary usage of Ashrams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Divine Luminous Wisdom That Dispels the Darkness by M R Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (1997)
"His Holiness Guru Bawa replied, There is no need for you to consider ashrams to
be necessary. It is not necessary to learn spiritual advancement from ..."
2. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"To deny in the face of millions of Hindus the existence of their great Gurus,
living in the ashrams scattered all over the Trans- or the ..."
3. A Selected Bibliography and Syllabus of the History of the South, 1584-1876 by Howard Haines Brinton, Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown, Alexander von Humboldt, John Nicol Farquhar, William Kenneth Boyd, John Washington Lockhart, Robert Reid, José López de Bustamante, Robert Preston Brooks, Jonnie (Lockhart) Wallis, Evergreen Press, F (1915)
"An Industrial Home with various departments. 3. A Shelter for the distressed. 4.
A Dispensary for Women and Children. 5. ashrams (or Sisterhoods) — Hindu, ..."
4. The Theosophical Glossary by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, George Robert Stow Mead (1892)
"A sacred building, a monastery or hermitage for ascetic purposes. Every sect in
India has its ashrams. Assassins. ..."
5. The Hindoos as They are: A Description of the Manners, Customs, and Inner by Ṣivachandra Vasu (1883)
"... their utter indifference to worldly concerns and sensual gratifications, their
living in sequestered ashrams, the practice of religious austerities, ..."
6. Indian Caste by John Wilson (1877)
"49-52. t The notice taken of the four ashrams in the Puranas, is quite accordant
with that of the Law Books. See, for example, Wilson's Vishnu Purana, pp. ..."
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