Saṃnyāsa in Sanskrit means "renunciation", "abandonment". It is a tripartite compound of saṃ- has "[[collective]]" [[meaning]], ni- means "down" and āsa is from the [[root]] as, meaning "to throw" or "to put", so a [[literal]] [[translation]] would be "laying it all down". In Dravidian [[languages]], "sanyasi" is pronounced as "sanyasi" and also "sannasi" in colloquial form. | Saṃnyāsa in Sanskrit means "renunciation", "abandonment". It is a tripartite compound of saṃ- has "[[collective]]" [[meaning]], ni- means "down" and āsa is from the [[root]] as, meaning "to throw" or "to put", so a [[literal]] [[translation]] would be "laying it all down". In Dravidian [[languages]], "sanyasi" is pronounced as "sanyasi" and also "sannasi" in colloquial form. |