Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See shaster.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as shaster.

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Examples

  • Their growing body of work has been lumped under the label sastra wangi -- literally, "fragrant literature" -- a somewhat derogatory term that has nonetheless stuck and helped the movement catch on.

    Indonesia's Literary Ladies 2007

  • Dr. Dito Anurogo, dokter online, penemu Hematopsikiatri, penulis buku dan ebook, pecinta budaya-sastra-seni-filsafat, yang pernah aktif di FLP (Forum Lingkar Pena) Semarang dan Member of IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students' Associations).

    Mengenal Misteri Sindrom Tourette – Netsains.Com 2009

  • Dengan memahami bentuk teater ini akan membantu para sejarawan sastra karya Shakespeare lebih memahami tentang kondisi zaman itu.

    Ilmuwan Temukan Gedung Teater Kuno Shakespeare – Netsains.Com 2008

  • The conservation effort, based on age-old traditional systems, is of prime importance today as the ancient science of temple architecture is closely related to many rituals and allied sciences like geometry, iconography, astrology, vastu sastra, tantra sastra and mural painting with organic pigments.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

  • Indonesia's Muslim leaders, who have been waging strict campaigns against pornography and suggestive dance shows on TV, have left the sastra wangi set alone.

    Indonesia's Literary Ladies 2007

  • "One of the greatest things about the sastra wangi movement is, it is bringing people to literature."

    Indonesia's Literary Ladies 2007

  • Some believe the sastra wangi writers are merely bringing to light the country's natural lustiness.

    Indonesia's Literary Ladies 2007

  • And now you see me prala, snatch the bar of iron, and place the heated end of it upon the covantza, or anvil, and forthwith I commence cooring the sastra as hard as if

    Lavengro 2004

  • Samyuktabhi-dharma-hridaya - (sastra) ,8 containing about six or seven thousand gathas; he also got a

    A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

  • Vasubandhu (c. 300–350), leading philosopher of Hinayana Buddhism, in his Abhidharmakosa sastra gave a classic summary of the Vibhasha and of the Vaibhashika school based upon it, with illuminating comments on the competing Sautrantika school founded by Kumaralabdha (c. 150–200) and developed by Harivarman.

    477-495+ 2001

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