आस्रवāsravaPain, affliction, distress.
[आस्रू-अप्]
- Pain, affliction, distress.
- Flowing, running.
- Discharge, emission.
- Fault, transgressing.
- The foam on boiling rice.
- (With Jainas) The impulse called योग or attention which the soul participates in the movement of its various bodies; it is defined as the 'action of the senses which impels the soul towards external objects'; it is good or evil according as it is directed towards good or evil objects.
Source: Apte