Telugu

Alternative forms

సంస్కారం ‎(saṃskāraṃ)

Noun

సంస్కారము • ‎(saṃskāramu)

1. forming well, making perfect, perfecting, completing, finishing, polishing, refining, reforming.
2. cooking, dressing (food).
3. preparing (as in tanning or hardening skins)
4. refinement, perfection, education, accomplishment.
5. forming in mind, conception, idea, notion.
6. impression, form.
7. mould.
8. impression on the mind or memory.
9. the power of memory, faculty of recollection, self-reproductive quality, association.
10. any faculty, capacity, instinct.
11. making sacred, hallowing, consecration.
12. purification, purity.
13. any sanctifying or purificatory rite enjoined on the first three castes, a sacrament.
14. burning on the funeral pyre, cremation.