ashram

• āśram

From Sanskrit आश्रम (āśrama).

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ashram (plural ashrams)

1. (Hinduism) A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage.

   The entire ashram was excited.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 219:

     In our broken culture those who have experienced the training of the yogic ashram are often woefully ignorant in the ways of the university, and vice versa.

• ashrama

• HA-MRSA, Mahars, Marash, Marsha, Shamar, Sharma, harams

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ashram m (plural ashrams)

1. ashram