noun
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the act of leaving, giving up something completely or for ever; abandonment.
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the stage in which a person renounces everything in the wordly life and is living a self-imposed poverty with regorous discipline and desireless life, for realising a higher spiritual stage.
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a vow of abstaining from food.
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a kind of disease.
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a singing of a rāga in an elaborate and aesthetic manner.