برت

बरत barat, बतर् bart, ॄत brat [S. ोत], s.m. Any religious act or obligation enjoined by the gods; a self-chosen or voluntary act, any meritorious act of devotion or austerity, a devout observance, fasting, continence, penance, vow, etc. (syn. upās; but this is more correctly applied to a compulsory abstention from food, as through inability to obtain it, or through sickness; whereas brat or barat has a strictly religious signification).