śāstra (n)
Meanings
- (esp.) any religious or scientific treatise
- a body of teaching (in general)
- advice
- an order
- any bock or treatise
- any instrument of teaching
- any manual or compendium of rules
- any sacred book or composition of divine authority
- command
- direction
- good counsel
- instruction
- precept
- rule
- science
- scripture
- teaching
