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SHASTRA

Definition: SHASTRA

SHASTRA

Noun

1. A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"SHASTRA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Shasta.


Synonyms within Context: SHASTRA

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Pseudo-Revelation

Noun: the Koran, the Alcoran; Lyking, Vedas, Zendavesta, Avesta, Sastra, Shastra, Tantra, Upanishads, Purana, Edda; Book of Mormon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Shastra

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Shastra is a Sanskrit word used to denote education/knowledge in a general sense. The word is generally used as a suffix in the context of technical or specialised knowledge in a defined area of practice. For example, Astra shastra means, knowledge about "Handling of weapons", Astra means weapons, and Shastra is their knowledge.

Some Shastras

Vaastu Shastra

Artha Shastra

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shastra."

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Crosswords: SHASTRA

English words defined with "SHASTRA": Shaster. (references)

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Modern Usage: SHASTRA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Prem Shastra (1974)

Ram Shastra (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SHASTRA

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Love Teachings of Kama Sutra: With Extracts from Koka Shastra, Ananga Ranga and Other Famous Indian Works on Love (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SHASTRA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vastu shastra

62

vaastu shastra

15

shastra

4

koka shastra

4

natya shastra

4

shastra vaast

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SHASTRA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-h-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: arhats, harass.

-2 letters: arhat, haars, harts, stars, stash, tahrs, trash, trass, tsars.

-3 letters: aahs, arts, haar, hart, hast, hats, rash, rath, rats, sash, shat, star, tahr, tars, tass, tsar.

-4 letters: aah, aas, aha, ars, art, ash, ass, has, hat, rah, ras, rat, sat, sha, tar, tas.

-5 letters: aa, ah, ar, as, at, ha, sh, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-h-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: ashtrays, stramash.

 

+2 letters: archaists, arethusas, catharses, catharsis, katharses, katharsis.

 

+3 letters: anarchists, arhatships, astrakhans, earthstars, harassment, hardstands, heartsease, saltshaker, stramashes, straphangs, transshape.

 

+4 letters: aftershaves, anastrophes, antiphrases, antiphrasis, artisanship, catachreses, catachresis, crankshafts, dysarthrias, fatshederas, hairstreaks, harassments, headmasters, headstreams, heartseases, metaphrases, paresthesia, pharmacists, saltshakers, satyagrahas, shearwaters, thysanurans, transshaped, transshapes, washaterias, washeterias.

 

+5 letters: achromatisms, anthracnoses, artisanships, athwartships, cataphoreses, cataphoresis, catastrophes, catchphrases, charismatics, christianias, earthshakers, hantaviruses, parachutists, paraesthesia, paresthesias, partisanship, steatorrheas, straphangers, thalassocrat, transhumants, transshaping, weathercasts, weatherglass, wharfmasters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SHASTRA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 48 41 53 54 52 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    .-    ...    -    .-.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001000 01000001 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0041 0053 0054 0052 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53423553545235

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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