A śramaṇa (Sanskrit: श्रमण, [ɕrɐmɐɳɐ]) or samaṇa (Pali: 𑀲𑀫𑀡; Chinese: 沙門 shāmén; Vietnamese: sa môn) is a person "who labours, toils, or exerts themselves...

during the fifth and sixth centuries BCE in ancient India's ascetic and Śramaṇa movements. The most comprehensive text on yoga, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali...

was the wife of Prince Siddhartha — until he left his home to become a śramaṇa— the mother of Rāhula, and the sister of Devadatta. She later became a...

to Dio Cassius) was a gymnosophist (naked philosopher), a monk of the Sramana tradition (possibly, but not necessarily a Buddhist) who, according to...

modern day Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh) during the Vedic age. The Śramaṇa culture of Greater Magadha developed parallel to but separate from the...

used at inscriptions throughout South and Southeast Asia, is Maha sramana, "great sramana" (ascetic, renunciate). On the basis of philological evidence,...

considers itself "the purpose or goal [end] of the Vedas". The non-Vedic śramaṇa traditions existed alongside Brahmanism. These were not direct outgrowths...

global population. Buddhism originated in the eastern Gangetic plain as a śramaṇa–movement in the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread throughout much of...

a hermit and a teacher of sāṃkhya philosophy and meditation. He was a śramaṇa and, according to the Pāli Canon scriptures, the first teacher of Gautama...

(worship). The texts of the Upanishads discuss ideas akin to the heterodox sramana traditions. The Samhitas and Brahmanas describe about daily rituals and...