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I often wonder if there's words in a modern Euro-tongue that get ported over to India/East Asian countries that carries religious meaning in its earlier forms but doesn't in modern use, but similarly is used in its archaic form.
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The word seems to have encoded in it a notion of compound interest benefits.
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From #SITG :"Learning is rooted in repetition & convexity....Mishnah,which in Hebrew refers to the pre-Talmudic compilation of oral tradition,means "doubling". Interestingly in Sanskrit, abhyāsa means both (repeated)practice &(arithmetical)multiplication. sanskritdictionary.com/?q=abhy%C4%81s
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