renunciation of worldly attachments, sensual enjoyments etc. for religious purpose.

a man who has renounced all his worldly attachments, sensual enjoyments and has become a wandering mendicant for religious purposes; a sanyāsi.

= ಪರಿವ್ರಾಜ -2.

a woman who has renounced all his worldly attachments, sensual enjoyments and has become a wandering mendicant for religious purposes; a sanyāsini.