sadhana
/ˈsɑːðənɑː
/noun [mass noun] Indian
Disciplined and dedicated practice or learning, especially in religion or music: years of sadhana blessed him with technical mastery...
- These practices included all traditional Hindu disciplines, and also sadhana of Muslim and Christian faith.
- For the next twenty years, I learned from him and did sadhana, religious discipline, for long hours.
- With snow and ice outside, on the inside the fires of teaching, worship and sadhana were kept burning by 100 devotees, including babies and elders.
Origin
From Sanskrit sādhanā 'dedication to an aim', from sādh 'bring about'.
- monumentality
- monumentalization
- monumentalize
- monumentally
- monumental mason
- monumental masonry
- monumental sculptor
- monumental sculpture
- monumentary
- put someone on notice (or serve notice)
- put someone on their mettle
- put someone on the spot
- put someone on to
- put someone (or something) through their (or its) paces
- put someone out
- put someone out to pasture
- put someone's eyes out
- put someone's nose out of joint
- put someone's (or have one's) ass in a sling
- put someone/thing on the map
- put someone/thing out of one's mind
- put someone/thing out of their misery
- put someone/thing to flight
- put someone/thing to the test
- put someone through