Definition of Shastras. Meaning of Shastras. Synonyms of Shastras

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Definition of Shastras

Shastra
Shaster Shas"ter, Shastra Shas"tra, n. [Skr. c[=a]stra an order or command, a sacred book, fr. c[=a]s to order, instruct, govern. Cf. Sastra.] A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas. [Written also sastra.]

Meaning of Shastras from wikipedia

- dharmaśāstra Shastras are predominantly post-Vedic literature, that is after about 500 BCE. However, it is unclear when various Shastras were composed...
- such as kissing, embracing, etc. While Shilpa and Vastu Shastras are related, Shilpa Shastras deal with arts and crafts such as forming statues, icons...
- related to Vastu Shastra. Aranmula Kottaram Dowsing Feng s**** Geomancy Kanippayyur Shankaran Namboodiripad Ley line Shilpa Shastras Tajul muluk R Arya...
- are six shastras. Vyākaraṇa is one of them. Four of the shastras are particularly important: Vyākaraṇa, Mīmāṃsā, Tarka, and Vedanta. Tarka shastra has concepts...
- with the composition of various texts collectively called the samudrika-shastras (IAST: Sāmudrika-śāstras). Many of these texts are undated: the Sanskrit-language...
- Shastra Nethralaya is a vedantic organization that practices a shastric system and methodology to learning Vedanta. It is a non-profit volunteer organization...
- The Nāṭya Shāstra (Sanskrit: नाट्य शास्त्र, Nāṭyaśāstra) is a Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts. The text is attributed to sage Bharata, and its...
- conjuncts instead of Indic text. The Vaimānika Śāstra (वैमानिक शास्त्र, lit. "shastra on the topic of Vimanas"; or "science of aeronautics", sometimes also rendered...
- person named Kautilya, compiling selections from these texts into a new shastra, which was likely titled Daņdanīti, "literally the administration of punishment...
- Kāma-shastra refers to the tradition of works about kāma (broadly desire; particularly love, erotic, sensual and ****ual desire in this case). Kāma-shastra...