Home › Entities › general › Saṃskāra

Saṃskāra

rites of passage described in ancient Sanskrit texts
Thing general Q1628520
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Saṃskāra

Summary

Saṃskāra ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (161 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Saṃskāra's subclass of is recorded as rite of passage[2].
  • Saṃskāra's subclass of is recorded as ritual[3].
  • Saṃskāra's Commons category is recorded as Samskara[4].
  • Saṃskāra's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cxj5j[5].
  • Saṃskāra's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Samskaras[6].
  • Saṃskāra's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • Saṃskāra's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/sankhara[8].
  • Saṃskāra's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/samskara-Hindu-passage-rite[9].
  • Saṃskāra's Krugosvet article is recorded as kultura_i_obrazovanie/religiya/SANSKARI.html[10].
  • Saṃskāra's Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia ID is recorded as samskara[11].

Why It Matters

Saṃskāra ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (161 views/month).[1] Saṃskāra has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Saṃskāra is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Saṃskāra. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/sa-sk-ra
MLA “Saṃskāra.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/sa-sk-ra.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sa-sk-ra_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Saṃskāra}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sa-sk-ra}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Saṃskāra — https://4ort.xyz/entity/sa-sk-ra (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/sa-sk-ra · Last refreshed: