[āsru-ap] 1 Pain, affliction, distress.

2 Flowing, running.

3 Discharge, emis- sion.

4 Fault, transgression.

5 The foam on boiling rice.

6 (With Jainas) The impulse called yoga or attention which the soul partici- pates in the movement of its vari- ous bodies; it is defined as the ‘ac- tion of the senses which impels the soul towards external objects’; it is good or evil according as it is directed towards...