Shastra

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Shastra ( Sanskrit शास्त्र śāstra ) denotes a script , teaching, instruction in the general sense. So Astra Shastra means knowledge about the weapons , Astra means weapon, and Shastra means knowledge or textbook. It can be both religious and technical writings. In Hinduism it mostly refers to the Vedas , which are said to have 14 or 18 Shastras in their connection. The word Shastra is also used collectively to refer to a collection of scriptures and then refers to a teaching structure such as E.g. Vedanta Shastra (the teaching of Vedanta), Yoga Shastra (teaching of Yoga), Dharma Shastra (code of law or books), of which the Manusmriti is the best known, Kavya Shastra (poetic work or poetry in general), Shilpa Shastra (mechanics ), Kama Shastra (erotic literature) or Alamkara Shastra (rhetoric). Artha Shastra is an important textbook on dealing with political power .

In Buddhist literature , Shastra is usually an explanatory commentary on a script, usually on a sutra .

In Indonesian , Sastra means " literature ".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilfried Huchzermeyer: The Yoga Lexicon . 6th edition. Karlsruhe 2015, ISBN 978-3-931172-28-2 , pp. 263 .