Crossword-Solution: SHASTRA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shastra | n. | A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SHASTRA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sacred scriptures of Hinduism | 1 answer |
| scripture Hindu | 2 answers |
| Hindu sacred writings | 5 answers |
| Sacred writings | 7 answers |
| Hindu scripture | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SHASTRA (5)
His spies were ordered, as the shastra called “The Prince” advises, to mix with robbers and thieves with a view of leading them into situations where they might most easily be entrapped, and once or twice when the fellows were too wary, he seized them and their relations and impaled them all, thereby conclusively proving, without any mistake, that he was king of earth.
The curious reader will consult for specimens the Ananga-Ranga Shastra by Koka Pandit; or the "Rujъ 'al-Shaykh ila 'l-Sabбh fi Kuwwati 'l-Bбh" (the Return of the Old Man to Youth in power of Procreation) by Ahmad bin Sulaymбn known as Ibn Kamбl-Bбshб, in 139 chapters lithographed at Cairo.
Revised and corrected translation, Cosmopoli: mdccclxxxvi.: for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares and for private circulation only.” A rival version will be brought out by a bookseller whose Committee, as he calls it, appears to be the model of literary pirates, robbing the author as boldly and as openly as if they picked his pocket before his face.
Reprint Cosmopoli: mdccclxxxv.: for the Kama Shastra Society, London and Benares, and for private circulation only.
Burton fell in with the idea, as did certain other members of Arbuthnot's circle, who had always been keenly interested in Orientalism, and so was formed the famous Kama Shastra Society.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1968–1981).