ब्रह्मचर्य

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[edit] Sanskrit

[edit] Noun

ब्रह्मचर्य (brahma-cárya) n.

  1. Brahmacharya: the study of the Veda
  2. the state of an unmarried religious student
  3. a state of continence and chastity
    in accusative with √grah, √car, √vas, ā-√gam, upa-√i — to practise chastity

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  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898, page 0738