सूत्र

Definitions

• thread, yarn, string, line, cord, wire
• a measuring line
• the sacred thread or cord worn by the first three classes (compare यज्ञोपवीत (tr=yajño-pavīta))
• a girdle
• a fibre
• a line, stroke
• a sketch, plan
• that which like a thread runs through or holds together everything, rule, direction
• a short sentence or aphoristic rule, and any work or manual consisting of strings of such rules; hanging together like threads; or, alternatively, written on palm leaves which are strung together sutra
• a kind of tree