The narrative in Samskara charts the evolution of Praneshacharya culminating in his decision to go back to his people and confess
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A study of 'Samskara', a novel written by U.R.Anantha Murthy, Indian novelists.
U.R. Anantha Murthty’s ‘Samskara’ was first published in 1965 and it was made into a film in 1970. Since then, it had created a lot of controversy in academic and non-academic circles. The theme of the novel is the story of a decaying brahmin agrahara in the old Konkan region.
The title of the novel ‘Samskara’ has different meanings. According to ‘A Kannada- English Dictionary’ by Reverent F. Kittel, the word ‘Samskara’ has the Following nine possible meanings:
1. Forming well or thoroughly, making perfect, perfecting; finishing refining,
refinement,accomplishment.
2. Forming in the mind, conception, idea, notion; the power of memory,
faculty of recollection, the realizing of past perceptions.
3. Preparation, making ready, preparation of food etc., cooking, dressing...
4. Making sacred, hallowing..
5. Consecration, consecration of a king, dedication etc.
6. Making pure, purification, purity.
7. A sanctifying or purificatory rite or essential ceremony (enjoyned on all the first
three classes or castes).
8. Any rite or ceremony. Funeral obsequies.
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