श्रुति

Definitions

• hearing, listening
• ear, organ or power of hearing
• the diagonal of a tetragon or hypothenuse of a triangle
• that which is heard or perceived with the ear, sound, noise
• an aggregate of sounds (whether forming a word or any part of a word)
• rumour, report, news, intelligence, hearsay
• a saying, saw, word
• that which has been heard or communicated from the beginning, sacred knowledge orally transmitted by the Brahmans from generation to generation, the Veda
• (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)
• name, title
• learning, scholarship