సంస్కారము
Telugu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]సంస్కారం (saṁskāraṁ)
Etymology
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Noun
[edit]సంస్కారము • (saṁskāramu) ? (plural సంస్కారములు)
- forming well, making perfect, perfecting, completing, finishing, polishing, refining, reforming
- cooking, dressing (food)
- preparing (as in tanning or hardening skins)
- refinement, perfection, education, accomplishment
- forming in mind, conception, idea, notion
- impression, form
- mould
- impression on the mind or memory
- the power of memory, faculty of recollection, self-reproductive quality, association
- any faculty, capacity, instinct
- making sacred, hallowing, consecration
- purification, purity
- any sanctifying or purificatory rite enjoined on the first three castes, a sacrament
- burning on the funeral pyre, cremation