سنسكار

सं ःकार saṅskār, s.m. Making perfect, perfecting, completing, finishing, polishing, refining, perfection, refinement; institution; education; accomplishment; conception, idea, notion; impression, design; form, mould; the power of memory; self-reproductive quality; faculty, capacity, instinct, habit, passion; operation, influence; decoration, embellishment, ornament, elegance; making sacred, hallowing, purification, consecration, dedication; purity; a sanctifying or purificatory rite or essential ceremony; investiture with the sacred thread; obsequies; a marriage-ceremony.