Sanskrit

Noun

आश्रम • ‎(ā-śrama) n, m

1. hermitage, the abode of ascetics, the cell of a hermit or of retired saints or sages; ashram
2. a stage in the life of a Brahman (of which there are four corresponding to four different periods or conditions, namely 1st, ब्रह्मचारिन् ‎(brahmacārin, “student of the veda”); 2nd, गृहस्थ ‎(gṛha-stha, “householder”); 3rd, वानप्रस्थ ‎(vānaprastha, “anchorite”); and 4th, संन्यासिन् ‎(saṃnyāsin, “abandoner of all worldly concerns”), or sometimes भिक्षु ‎(bhikṣu, “religious beggar”); in some places the law-givers mention only three such periods of religious life, the first being then omitted)
3. hut built on festal occasions
4. college, school
5. wood, thicket
6. (masculine) name of a pupil of Pṛthvī-dhara

Declension

Derived terms

• अनाथ आश्रम ‎(anātha āśrama)

Descendants

• English: ashram

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0158