(p. 967) saṃskāra purification; the sacrament of purification or reclamation; a sacrament (দশবিধসংস্কার); cleansing; dressing (কেশসংস্কার); reformation, reforms; mending, repair; correction, amendment (ভ্রমসংস্কার); revision (গ্রন্হসংস্কার); an irrational belief or notion, a stock notion; a prejudice or superstition; an impression (on the mind); innate knowledge or feeling, intuition, instinct (পূর্বজন্মের সংস্কার). সংস্কার করা v. to purify; to purify or reclaim sacramentally; to cleanse; to dress, to reform; to mend, to repair; to correct, to amend; to revise. অন্ধ সংস্কার n. a blind or irrational notion, a prejudice. গৃহ সংস্কার n. house-repair; (daily) cleansing of a house. বেশ সংস্কার n. tidying up of one's dress; dressing. সংস্কারক n. a purifier; a sacramental purifier or reclaimer; a cleaner; a dresser; a reformer; a mender, a repairer, a repairman; a corrector, an amender; a reviser. ̃সাধন করা same as সংস্কার করা । ̃বদ্ধ a. bound by stock notions or superstitions or prejudices or instincts. ̃বর্জিত, ̃হীন a. (rare) not having received any sacrament; free from superstition or prejudice or stock notions. ̃বাদ n. the doctrine that the world may be made better by human effort, meliorism. ̃বিমুখ a. averse to reforms; conservative. সংস্কারাচ্ছন্ন a. thoroughly dominated by or blinded by superstitions or prejudices or stock notions. 47)
