anything heard , that which has been heard (esp. from the beginning) , knowledge as heard by holy men and transmitted from generation to generation , oral tradition or revelation , sacred knowledge (in the Pur. personified as a child of dharma and medhā) , the vedaAV. &c

that which has been heard or communicated from the beginning , sacred knowledge orally transmitted by the Brahmans from generation to generation , the

veda (i.e. sacred eternal sounds or words as eternally heard by certain holy sages called ṛṣis , and so differing from smṛ́ti or what is only remembered and handed down in writing by human authors »Mn. ii , 10 ; it is properly only applied to the mantra and brāhmaṇa portion of the vedas , although afterwards extended to the upaniṣads and other Vedic works including the darśanas ; iti śruteḥ , " because it is so taught in the veda , according to a śruti or Vedic text " ; pl. " sacred texts , the vedas " , also " rites prescribed by the vedas ") AitBr. S3rS. Mn. MBh. &c IW. 144

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(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)

upa-ni- √sad) P. (pf.-ní-ṣedus) to sit down near to ; to approach , set about AV. xix , 41 , 1S3Br. Kaus3.

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(according to some) the sitting down at the feet of another to listen to his words (and hence , secret knowledge given in this manner ; but according to native authorities upaniṣad means " setting at rest ignorance by revealing the knowledge of the supreme spirit ")

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the mystery which underlies or rests underneath the external system of things (

a class of philosophical writings (more than a hundred in number , attached to the

brāhmaṇas [but »īśopaniṣad] ; their aim is the exposition of the secret meaning of the veda , and they are regarded as the source of the vedānta and sāṃkhya philosophies ; for the most important of the upaniṣads »IW. p.37seq.)

of a king of aṅga (and elder brother by the mother's side of the pāṇḍu princes , being the son of the god sūrya by pṛthā or kuntī , before her marriage with pāṇḍu ; afraid of the censure of her relatives , kuntī deserted the child and exposed it in the river , where it was found by a charioteer named adhi-ratha and nurtured by his wife rādhā ; hence karṇa is sometimes called sūta-putra or sūta-ja , sometimes rādheya , though named by his foster-parents vasu-ṣeṇa) MBh. BhP. &c

that which has been heard or communicated from the beginning , sacred knowledge orally transmitted by the Brahmans from generation to generation , the

veda (i.e. sacred eternal sounds or words as eternally heard by certain holy sages called ṛṣis , and so differing from smṛ́ti or what is only remembered and handed down in writing by human authors »Mn. ii , 10 ; it is properly only applied to the mantra and brāhmaṇa portion of the vedas , although afterwards extended to the upaniṣads and other Vedic works including the darśanas ; iti śruteḥ , " because it is so taught in the veda , according to a śruti or Vedic text " ; pl. " sacred texts , the vedas " , also " rites prescribed by the vedas ") AitBr. S3rS. Mn. MBh. &c IW. 144

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(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)

-śṛṇoti , -śṛṇute , to hear or hear from (e.g.mukhāt , " from any one's mouth ") , attend or listen attentively to (acc.) MBh. Ka1v. &c ; to assent , promise (loc. or dat.) ib. ; (A1.) to be distinctly heard or audible S3a1n3khBr. (cf.Pa1n2. i , 3 , 29Va1rtt. 2Pat. ) : Pass.-śrūyate , to be heard or talked about or read about (yathā saṃśrūyate , " as people say " or , as we read in books) MBh. : Caus.-śrāvayati , to cause to hear or to be heard , proclaim , announce (nāma , " one's name ") , relate or report anything (acc.) to any one (acc. or dat.) Ya1jn5. ; to read out (»saṃ-śrāviśa) ; to make resound MBh.

supernatural science or faculty of a buddha (of which five are enumerated , viz. 1. taking any form at will ; 2. hearing to any distance ; 3. seeing to any distance ; 4. penetrating men's thoughts ; 5. knowing their state and antecedents).

=yathāvat) BhP. (yáthā yathā-táthā tathā or evaī́*va , " in whatever manner " , - " in that manner " , " according as " or " in proportion as " , - " so " , " by how much the more " - " by so much " , " the more " - " the more" ; yathā tathā , " in whatever manner " , " in every way " , " anyhow " ; with na , " in no way " , " really not " ; yathā kathaṃcit , " in any way " , " somehow or other " ; yathai*va , " just as " ; tad yathā*pināma , " just as if ") .

(accord. to some fr. √1. vah ; cf. 2. vaṭ and vauṣaṭ) an exclamation uttered by the hotṛ priest at the end of the sacrificial verse (on hearing which the adhvaryu priest casts the oblation offered to the deity into the fire ; it is joined with a dat.e.g.pūṣṇe vaṣaṭ ; with √ kṛ , " to utter the exclamation vaṣaṭ ") RV. VS. Br. S3rS. Mn. MBh. Pur.

a disciple of the buddha (the disciples of the hīna-yāna school are sometimes so called in contradistinction to the disciples of the mahā-yāna school ; properly only those who heard the law from the buddha's own lips have the name śrāvaka , and of these two , viz. Sariputta and Moggallana , were agra-śrāvakas , " chief disciples " , while eighty , including kāśyapa , upāli , and ānanda , were mahā-śrāvakas or " great disciples ") MWB. 47 , 75

anything heard , that which has been heard (esp. from the beginning) , knowledge as heard by holy men and transmitted from generation to generation , oral tradition or revelation , sacred knowledge (in the Pur. personified as a child of dharma and medhā) , the vedaAV. &c

that which has been heard or communicated from the beginning , sacred knowledge orally transmitted by the Brahmans from generation to generation , the

veda (i.e. sacred eternal sounds or words as eternally heard by certain holy sages called ṛṣis , and so differing from smṛ́ti or what is only remembered and handed down in writing by human authors »Mn. ii , 10 ; it is properly only applied to the mantra and brāhmaṇa portion of the vedas , although afterwards extended to the upaniṣads and other Vedic works including the darśanas ; iti śruteḥ , " because it is so taught in the veda , according to a śruti or Vedic text " ; pl. " sacred texts , the vedas " , also " rites prescribed by the vedas ") AitBr. S3rS. Mn. MBh. &c IW. 144

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(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)