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shastra
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shaster \Shas"ter\, Shastra \Shas"tra\, n. [Skr. c[=a]stra an order or command, a sacred book, fr. c[=a]s to order, instruct, govern. Cf. Sastra.] A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas. [Written also sastra.]
Wikipedia
Shastra (, IAST: , ) is a Sanskrit word that means "precept, rules, manual, compendium, book or treatise" in a general sense. The word is generally used as a suffix in the Indian literature context, for technical or specialized knowledge in a defined area of practice.
Shastra has a similar meaning to English -logy, e.g. ecology, psychology, meaning scientific and basic knowledge on particular subject. Examples in terms of modern neologisms include bhautikashastra "physics", rasayanashastra "chemistry", jīvashastra "biology", vastushastra "architectural science", shilpashastra "science of mechanical arts and sculpture", arthashastra "science of politics, economics" and nitishastra "compendium of ethics or right policy".
In Western literature, Shastra is sometimes spelled as Sastra.
Shastra is a 1996 Hindi action film directed by Sanjay Khanna. The film stars Sunil Shetty and Anjali Jathar. The film was a box office failure.
Usage examples of "shastra".
Those who are the votaries of other Gods and worship them with faith--even they, O Kaunteya, worship me alone, though not as the Shastra requires--IX, 23.
Elizabeth had as natural qualities more of the sixty-four arts of the Kama Shastra than Nicola ever hoped to attain.
Iiseux in Paris during 1885, and the Kama Shastra Society edition, translated from French into English by Sir Richard Burton, was published in 1886.
Ardis Hall trunkfuls of eighteenth-century libertines, German sexologists, and a whole circus of Shastras and Nefsawis in literal translation with apocryphal addenda.