आश्रम

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  monastery, hermitage, ashram

Etymology
From the root.

Noun

 * 1) hermitage, the abode of ascetics, the cell of a hermit or of retired saints or sages; ashram
 * 2) a stage in the life of a Brahman (of which there are four corresponding to four different periods or conditions, namely 1st, ; 2nd, ; 3rd, ; and 4th,, or sometimes ; in some places the law-givers mention only three such periods of religious life, the first being then omitted)
 * 3) hut built on festal occasions
 * 4) college, school
 * 5) wood, thicket
 * 6) (masculine) name of a pupil of Pṛthvī-dhara