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A śramaṇa () or samaṇa is a person "who labours, toils, or exerts themselves for some higher or religious purpose" or "seeker, one who performs acts of austerity, ascetic". During its development, the term came to refer to several non-Brahmanical ascetic religious movements parallel to but separate from the Vedic religion's (and its modern-day form Hinduism). The Śramaṇa tradition includes primari... Wikipedia