Sādhanā is a Sanskrit term for "a means to accomplish something" used in Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Sadhana may also refer to:

People

* Sadhana Shivdasani, an Indian Bollywood actress (known mononymously as Sadhana) *

Sadhana (Malayalam actress) Sadhana is an Indian actress in Malayalam movies. She was a leading actress during the late 1960s and 1970s in Malayalam and Tamil movies. She has acted in more than 100 movies. Personal life She was born in a Muslim family to Babu and Beegam ...

, an Indian actress in Malayalam films during the 1960s and 1970s *

Sadhana Sargam Sadhana Sargam (née Ghanekar, born 7 March 1969) is an Indian singer known for her playback career in Indian cinema predominantly in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil language films. She is a recipient of the National Film Award and Filmfare Awa ...

, an Indian playback singer *

Bhagat Sadhana Bhagat Sadhna, also called Sadhna Qasai, was a north Indian poet, saint, mystic and one of the devotees whose hymn was incorporated in Guru Granth Sahib. Venerated in the region of Punjab, among Sikhs and Ravidassias, his devotional hymn is wide ...

, North Indian Muslim poet, saint, mystic and one of the devotees whose hymn is present in Guru Granth Sahib

Media and literature

* ''Sadhna'' (film), a 1958 Hindi film directed by B. R. Chopra, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt * ''Sadhana'', a magazine edited between 1891 and 1895 by Bengali writer

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

* ''Sadhana: The Realization of Life'', a collection of essays published in 1913 by Bengali writer

* ''Sadhana'' (weekly), a weekly Marathi-language publication established in 1948

Other usages

* Sadhana, practice of classical music * ''Sādhanā'' (journal), a peer-reviewed journal of engineering and applied science published by the Indian Academy of Sciences {{disambiguation