1. Hearing, audition, or an ear. 2. Sound, oral account, report, rumour, or intelligence. 3. Revelation or the Veda. 4. Any Vedic or sacred text. 5. The diagonal of a tetragon or hypothenuse of a triangle. 6. A quarter tone or interval in music. 7. The constellation Shravana.
श्रुति (śruti) [Printed book page 1027-c] Śruti, is, f. ‘audition,’ hearing; an ear; anything
heard, sound, oral account, report, rumour, intelli-
gence, news; that which was heard or revealed from
the beginning, revelation, the Veda (i. e. sound
eternally heard and so differing from
smṛti or what
is only remembered and handed down by human
authors, see Manu II. 10; properly applied to works
considered to have been revealed by a deity, and
therefore only to the Mantra and Brāhmaṇa portion
of the Vedas, but often applied also to the Upaniṣads
and other Vedic works); any Vedic or sacred text,
(
iti śruteḥ, according to or because of such a
śruti or Vedic text); the hearing of a sound, a sound;
the diagonal of a tetragon or hypothenuse of a
triangle; (in music) a particular division of the
octave, a quarter tone or interval, (twenty-two of
these are enumerated, four constituting a major tone,
three a minor, and two a semitone; they are said
to be personified as nymphs); the constellation Śra-
vaṇā.
—Śruti-kaṭa, as, m. penance, expiation; a
snake; (according to Śabda-k.)
= prāñcalloha. —Śruti-kaṭu, us, us, u, harsh to the ear, unme-
lodious; (
us), m. a harsh or unmelodious sound,
cacophony (a fault in rhetoric).
—Śruti-kathita, as, ā, am, mentioned in the Veda, taught or prescribed
by the Vedas.
—Śruti-kīrtti, is, f., N. of a work.
Page1028-a+ 80 —Śruti-codana, am, n. ‘Veda-precept,’ holy pre-
cept or injunction, the doctrine of the Vedas.
—Śruti- jīvikā, f. a law-book or code of laws.
—Śruti-tat- para, as, ā, am, intent on hearing; intent on
studying the Veda.
—Śruti-dvaidha, am, n. dis-
agreement or contradiction of any two passages in
the Vedas or of two Vedas.
—Śruti-dhara, as, ā, am, ascertaining or perceiving by the ear, hearing;
holding or observing the Vedas; (
as), m., N. of a
poet; [cf.
śruta-dhara.]
—Śruti-nidarśana, am, n. the evidence of revelation, testimony of the Veda.
—Śruti-prasādana, as, ī, am, gratifying the ear,
grateful to the ear.
—Śruti-prāmāṇyatas, ind. on
the authority of the Veda, with the sanction of the
Veda.
—Śruti-maṇḍala, am, n. ‘ear-circle,’ the
outer ear.
—Śruti-mat, ān, atī, at, possessed of ears,
capable of hearing.
—Śruti-mūla, am, n. the root of
the ear; the text of the Vedas.
—Śruti-mūlaka, as, ā, am, founded on the Veda, springing from the
Veda.
—Śruti-mṛgya, as, ā, am, to be sought by
hearing or by the Vedas (not by sight).
—Śruti-var- jita, as, ā, am, devoid of hearing, deaf; ignorant
or unread in the Vedas.
—Śruti-vipratipanna, as, ā, am, dissenting from revelation, disregarding the
doctrine of the Veda.
—Śruti-viṣaya, as, m. the
object of hearing (i. e. sound, see
viṣaya); subject-
matter or doctrine of the Veda, any sacred matter or
ordinance; (
as, ā, am), conversant with sacred
matters, familiar with the Veda.
—Śruti-viṣaya- guṇa, as, ā, am, ‘having the quality [sound] which
is the object of hearing or which is perceptible by
the ear,’ epithet of ether.
—Śruti-vedha, as, m. the
piercing or boring of the ear.
—Śruti-sphoṭā, f. a
kind of creeper
(= karṇa-sphoṭā).
—Śruti-smṛti, ī, f. du. the Veda and legal tradition, the Veda
and institutes of law.
—Śruti-smṛti-viruddha, as, ā, am, opposed to the Vedas and to tra-
dition or law.
—Śruti-smṛti-vihita, as, ā, am, enjoined by the Vedas and the law.
—Śruti-smṛty- udita, as, ā, am, declared or enjoined by the Veda
and law.
—Śruty-anuprāsa, as, m. repetition of
sound, alliteration.
—Śruty-ukta or
śruty-udita, as, ā, am, said or enjoined by the Vedas.
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