abhyāsa (m)
Meanings
- (in arithm.) multiplication
- (in Gr.) "what is prefixed"
- (in later Vedānta phil.) inculcation of a truth conveyed in sacred writings by means of repeating the same word or the same passage
- (in poetry) repetition of the last verse of a stanza or of the last word of a chapter
- (in Yoga phil.) the effort of the mind to remain in its unmodified condition of purity (sattva)
- custom
- discipline
- habit
- military practice
- reduplication
- repeated or permanent exercise
- repeated reading
- repetition
- study
- the act of adding anything
- the first syllable of a reduplicated radical
- use
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