sādhana (n)
Meanings
- (in gram.) the sense of the instrumental or agent (as expressed by the case of a noun)
- a means of summoning or conjuring up a spirit (or deity)
- accomplishment
- acquisition
- an expedient
- any agent or instrument or implement or utensil or apparatus
- any means of effecting or accomplishing
- argument
- army or portion of an army
- attainment of beatitude
- battle
- bringing about
- burning on a funeral pile
- carrying out
- commodities
- completion
- computation
- conciliation
- conflict
- conjuring up
- cure
- demonstration
- depriving them by oxydation etc. of their metallic properties (esp. said of mercury)
- destroying
- drug
- efficient cause or source (in general)
- enforcing payment or recovery (of a debt)
- establishment of a truth
- finding out by calculation
- following
- fruit
- fullilment
- gain
- going
- going after
- going quickly
- good works
- goods
- healing
- ingredient
- killing
- killing metals
- making ready
- material
- matter
- means of correcting or punishing (as "a stick")
- means of enjoyment
- means or materials of warfare
- medicine
- military forces
- obsequies
- obtaining
- organ of generation (male or female)
- overpowering
- penance
- perfection
- preparation (of food)
- preparing
- proceeding
- procuring
- proof
- propitiation
- reason or premiss (in a syllogism)
- requisite for (gen. or comp.)
- result
- self-mortification
- setting out
- subdueing by charms
- subduing
- subduing a disease
- substance
- summoning (spirits etc.)
- the act of mastering
- the conjugational affix or suffix which is placed between the root and terminations
- worship
Sememes
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