# आस्रव (āsrava)

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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 — E. āṅ, sru to go, and ac aff
- **SLP1:** `Asrava`  **IAST:** āsrava  **Devanagari:** आस्रव
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asrava
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/asrava/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** आस्राव (āsrāva)

## Meanings by context

### Multiple Meanings (Flow, Distress, etc.) (5 definitions)
- 1. Distress, pain, or affliction. 2. Flow, running, or discharge.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > आस्रव (āsrava) [Printed book page 127 ] आस्रव (āsrava) m. ( - वः (-vaḥ) ) 1 Distress, pain, affliction. 2 Flow, running, discharge. E. आङ्, स्रु (āṅ, sru) to go, and अच् (ac) aff. [ ID=6105 ]
- 1. Distress. 2. Flowing or discharge.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > आस्रव (āsrava) [Printed book page 103-b ] आ - स्रव (ā-srava) ( वः ) ((vaḥ)) 1. m. Distress; flowing, discharge. Also आस्रावः (āsrāvaḥ). [ ID=5486 ]
- 1. Flowing or running. 2. Discharge. 3. Pain or affliction.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > आस्रव (āsrava) [Printed book page 114-13 ] आस्रव (āsrava) m. 1. Flowing, running; 2. discharge; 3. pain, affliction. [ ID=5657 ]
- 1. Distress, pain, or affliction. 2. Flow, issue, or discharge.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > आस्रव (āsrava) [Printed book page 105-a ] आस्रव (āsrava) m. ( - वः (-vaḥ) ) 1. Distress, pain, affliction. 2. Flow, issue, running, dis charge. E. आङ् (āṅ) before स्रु (sru) to go, and अच् (ac) aff. [ ID=6103 ]
- 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)*
  > आस्रव (āsrava) [Printed book page 0136-b ] आस्रव (āsrava) ā-srava, as, m. (fr. rt. sru with prep. ā ), the foam on boiling rice; flowing, running, discharge; distress, pain, affliction; (with Jainas) that which directs the embodied spirit towards eternal objects, (viz. the occupation or employment of the senses or organs on sensible objects; or the association or connection of body with right and wrong deeds.) [ ID=9733 ]

### 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)*
  > (with Jainas) the action of the senses which impels the soul towards external objects (one of the seven Sattvas or substances; it is two fold, as good or evil), Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha (Title) [ ID=28249 ]
- the influence of body, mind, and speech in impelling the soul to generate karma  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (with Jainas) the influence or action of body and mind and speech in impelling the soul to generate Karma. [ ID=28250.2 ]

### Buddhist concept: Impurity / Defilement (1 definition)
- impurity, defilement, sin  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > [Printed book page 1320,3] (with, Buddhist literature (Literary category) ) impurity, defilement, sin [ ID=28250.1 ]

### Distress, Pain, Affliction (1 definition)
- distress, affliction, and pain  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > distress, affliction, pain, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ ID=28250 ]

### Foam on boiling rice (1 definition)
- the foam on boiling rice  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 162,1] आ - स्रव (ā-srava) m. the foam on boiling rice, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ ID=28247 ]

### Water sluice or door (1 definition)
- a door opening into water allowing the stream to descend through it  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > a door opening into water and allowing the stream to descend through it, Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha (Title) [ ID=28248 ]

## Sources

Definitions from 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, University of Cologne.

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