Just for fun:
saMskAra m. (ifc. f. %{A}) putting together , forming well , making perfect ,
accomplishment , embellishment adornment , purification , cleansing , making
ready , preparation , dressing (of food) , refining (of metals) , polishing (of
gems) , rearing (of animals or plants) Gr2S3rS. MBh. Ka1v. , &c. ; cleansing
the body , toilet , attire Hariv. ; forming the mind , training , education R.
Ragh. ; correction (also in an astronomical sense Su1ryas.) , correct formation
or use of a word Nir. Sarvad. ; correctness , purity (esp. of pronunciation or
expression) MBh. R. &c. ; making sacred , hallowing , consecration Mn. MBh. &c.
; a sacred or sanctifying ceremony , one which purifies from the taint of sin
contracted in the , womb and leading to regeneration (12 such ceremonies are
enjoined on the first three or twice-born classes in Mn. ii , 27 , viz. 1.
%{garbhA7dhAna} , 2. %{puM-savana} , 3. %{sImanto7nnayana} , 4. %{jAta-karman}
, 5. %{nAmakarman} , 6. %{niSkramaNa} , 7. %{anna-prA7zana} , 8. %{cUDA-karman}
, 9. %{upanayana} , 10. %{kezA7nta} , 11. %{samAvartana} , 12. %{vivAha} , qq.
vv. ; accord. to Gaut. viii , 8 &c. there are 40 Sam2ska1ras) Gr2S. Mn. MBh.
&c. (IW.188 ; 192 &c. RTL. 353) [1120,3] ; the ceremony performed on a dead
body (i.e. cremation) R. ; any purificatory ceremony W. ; the faculty of memory
, mental impression or recollection , impression on the mind of acts done in a
former state of existence (one of the 24 qualities of the Vais3eshikas ,
including %{bhAvanA} , the faculty of reproductive imagination "') Kan2.
Sarvad. (IW. 69) ; (pl. , with Buddhists) a mental conformation or creation of
the mind (such as that of the external world , regarded by it as real , though
actually non-existent , and forming the second link in the twelvefold chain of
causation or the fourth of the 5 Skandhas) Dharmas. 22 ; 42 ; a polishing stone
MW.
