śramaṇá mf(A or I)n. making effort or exertion, toiling, labouring, (esp.) following a toilsome or menial business, [W.]
base, vile, bad, [ib.]
naked, [L.]
śramaṇá m. one who performs acts of mortification or austerity, an ascetic, monk, devotee, religious mendicant, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.
a Buddhist monk or mendicant (also applied to Buddha himself, cf. [MWB. 23] &c.; also applied to a Jain ascetic now commonly called Yati), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
N. of a serpent-demon, [Buddh.]
(ā or ī), a female mendicant or nun, [L.]
a hard-working woman, [L.]
śramaṇá n. toil, labour, exertion, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]