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आस्रवāsrava

आस्रव (āsrava) is a Sanskrit word meaning the foam on boiling rice, distress, affliction, and pain, impurity, defilement, sin, flowing, running, or discharge, distress, pain, or affliction, flow, running, or discharge. Its 11 recorded definitions are grouped into 6 contexts, among them Multiple Meanings (Flow, Distress, etc.), Jaina concept: Karmic influx / Sensory action, Buddhist concept: Impurity / Defilement.

Etymology
E. आङ्, स्रु to go, and अच् aff
Definitions
11
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Meanings by context

Multiple Meanings (Flow, Distress, etc.)

5 definitions
1. Distress, pain, or affliction. 2. Flow, running, or discharge.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Distress. 2. Flowing or discharge.

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Flowing or running. 2. Discharge. 3. Pain or affliction.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Distress, pain, or affliction. 2. Flow, issue, or discharge.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. The foam on boiling rice. 2. Flowing, running, or discharge. 3. Distress, pain, or affliction. 4. In Jainism, that which directs the embodied spirit toward external objects.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Jaina concept: Karmic influx / Sensory action

2 definitions
with Jainas, the action of the senses that impels the soul toward external objects

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the influence of body, mind, and speech in impelling the soul to generate karma

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Buddhist concept: Impurity / Defilement

1 definition
impurity, defilement, sin

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Distress, Pain, Affliction

1 definition
distress, affliction, and pain

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Foam on boiling rice

1 definition
the foam on boiling rice

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Water sluice or door

1 definition
a door opening into water allowing the stream to descend through it

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 6 works: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.