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Samara vs Samsara - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between samara and samsara

is that samara is the winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple while samsara is in Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.

As a proper noun Samara

is a city in Russia, the sixth-largest in the country by population.

samara

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple

    • Synonyms

    * (winged fruit) helicopter, polynose, whirligig, whirlybird

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    samsara

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (-)
  • (philosophy, religion) In Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
  • * 1957 , and C. A. Moore (eds.), A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy , Princeton Univ. Press, page 38:
    • Until we are released from the law of karma'' and reach ''moksha'' or deliverance, we will be in ''samsara or the time process.

    See also

    * reincarnation * metempsychosis * transmigration

    External links

    * (wikipedia "samsara")

    References

    * * * " samsara" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " samsara" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * The Upanishads, abridged, translated and edited by Swami Nikhilananda, Harper Torchbooks, 1963, page 379

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