సంస్కారము

Telugu

Alternative forms

సంస్కారం (saṁskāraṁ)

Etymology

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Noun

సంస్కారము • (saṁskāramu) ? (plural సంస్కారములు)

1. forming well, making perfect, perfecting, completing, finishing, polishing, refining, reforming.
2. cooking, dressing (food).
3. preparing (as in tanning or hardening skins)
4. refinement, perfection, education, accomplishment.
5. forming in mind, conception, idea, notion.
6. impression, form.
7. mould.
8. impression on the mind or memory.
9. the power of memory, faculty of recollection, self-reproductive quality, association.
10. any faculty, capacity, instinct.
11. making sacred, hallowing, consecration.
12. purification, purity.
13. any sanctifying or purificatory rite enjoined on the first three castes, a sacrament.
14. burning on the funeral pyre, cremation.