sandhya
See also: Sandhya
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit संध्या (saṃdhyā, “twilight, twilight prayers”).
Noun
sandhya (plural sandhyas)
- (Hinduism) Morning or evening prayers.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 103:
- He did his sandhya in the mornings after he had his bath, put the red tilak on the foreheads of the gods and goddesses, said his prayers, prostrated before them and went off to work.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 103: