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श्रुति f. 1.f. hearing, listening (श्रुतिम् अभिनीय, ‘feigning to hear’; श्रुतिं वचो ऽनुगां-√ कृ, ‘to listen to a speech’), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.
the ear, organ or power of hearing, [Kāv.] ; [VarBṛS.] ; [Kathās.]
the diagonal of a tetragon or hypothenuse of a triangle, [Gol.]
that which is heard or perceived with the ear, sound, noise &c., [RV.] ; [AV.] ; [Prāt.] ; [Kathās.] ; [BhP.]
an aggregate of sounds (whether forming a word or any part of a word), [TPrāt.]
श्रुतौ-√ स्था rumour, report, news, intelligence, hearsay (, ‘to be known by hearsay’), [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c.
a saying, saw, word, [MBh.] ; [R.] ; [BhP.]
स्मृति that which has been heard or communicated from the beginning, sacred knowledge orally transmitted by the Brāhmans from generation to generation, the वेद (i.e. sacred eternal sounds or words as eternally heard by certain holy sages called ऋषिs, and so differing from or what is only remembered and handed down in writing by human authors See, [Mn. ii, 10] ; it is properly only applied to the मन्त्र and ब्राह्मण portion of the वेदs, although afterwards extended to the उपनिषद्s and other Vedic works including the दर्शनs; इति श्रुतेः, ‘because it is so taught in the वेद, according to a श्रुति or Vedic text’; pl. ‘sacred texts, the वेदs’, also ‘rites prescribed by the वेदs’), [AitBr.] ; [ŚrS.] ; [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c., [IW. 144]
(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), [Yājñ.] ; [Śiś.] ; [Pañcar.]
a name, title, [Kāvyâd. ii, 331]
श्रुत learning, scholarship, [Śak.] ; [VarBṛS.] (prob. w.r. for )
बुद्धि = , [L.]
N. of a daughter of अत्रि and wife of कर्दम, [VP.]
श्रुति f. 2.f. (cf. स्रुति) course, path (?), [RV. ii, 2, 7; x, 111, 3]
the constellation, श्रवणा, [L.]
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