Srotas, Śrotas, Shrotas: 16 definitions

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Srotas has 15 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit term Śrotas can be transliterated into English as Srotas or Shrotas, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Śrotas (श्रोतस्):—(wie eben) n. Ohr [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 6, 31.] — S. auch srotas .

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Srotas (स्रोतस्):—(von sru) n. [Uṇādisūtra 4, 201.]

1) Strömung; Strombett; Strom, Fluss [das 1, 12.] [Amarakoṣa 1, 2, 3, 11. 3, 4, 31, 235.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1080. 1086.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 594.] [Medinīkoṣa s. 45.] [Halāyudha 3, 44. 47.] u.ro ya.iṃ nira.aḥ srotasāsṛjat [Ṛgveda 1, 51, 11.] dhanva.srotaḥ kṛṇute gā.umū.mim [95, 10.] niruṇaddhi srotaḥ [Yāska’s Nirukta 6, 1.] srotobhimukha [ĀŚV. GṚHY.] [PARIŚ. 1, 9.] āpaḥ srotassu [ŚVETĀŚV. Upakośā 1, 15. 2, 8.] srotasāṃ bhedakaḥ, srotasāmāvaraṇam [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 163.] [Mahābhārata 1, 4208.] nadyāḥ srotojavena [5875. 6752. 13, 4929.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 44, 8.] [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 1, 45, 10. fg. 2, 6, 12. 3, 31, 11.] śīghramapām [5, 22, 12.] [Meghadūta 52.] [Raghuvaṃśa 1, 78. 4, 36.] [Śākuntala 50. 85, 1.] srotasevohyamānasya pratīpataraṇaṃ mahat [Vikramorvaśī 24.] [MĀLATĪM. 79, 19.] [Spr. (II) 5122. 6338. 6518.] srotonyatva [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 97, 5.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 240. 6, 317.] srotasāmasmi jāhnavī sagt Kṛṣṇa [Bhagavadgītā 10, 31.] srotobhiriva sāgaraḥ (vardhate) [Mahābhārata 12, 3473.] srotāṃsi susruvurgiridhātubhyaḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 63, 18.] payaḥ srotasām [Meghadūta 13. 46.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 80, 10.] sarvasrotāṃsi gaṅgāyāḥ Nebenarme [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 38, 15. 18.] tasyāṃ (gaṅgāyāṃ) visṛjyamānāyāṃ sapta srotāṃsi jajñire [44, 14.] [Spr. (II) 6095.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 33, 32.] mūla [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 96.] dugdha [?(pl.) MĀLATĪM. 60, 11.] Am Ende eines adj. comp.: śīghra [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 55, 13. 103, 25.] tīkṣṇa [4, 41, 11. 44, 47.] śuṣka [5, 21, 15.] bahu [Kathāsaritsāgara 110, 80.] bhūri [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 96.] —

2) Strom so v. a. schnelle Bewegung: karāla adj. (kālacakra) [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 21, 18.] heftiger Andrang: tṛṣṇā [Spr. (II) 4310.] āsravasya (so ist zu lesen) srotaso dvāraṃ saṃvṛṇoti [SARVADARŚANAS. 39, 14.] —

3) Kanal im menschlichen Leibe; deren dreizehn (für Athem, Wasser, Speise, Speisesaft, Blut u.s.w.) [CARAKA 3,5.] [Bhāvaprakāśa] in [Oxforder Handschriften 311,a,3 v. u.] srotomārga [Suśruta 2, 354, 8.] ambuvāhin [488, 4. 5. 11.] vātamūtrapurīṣavaha [516, 9. 529, 13.] muṣka [57, 12.] viśodhana [1, 218, 6.] [Mahābhārata 12, 6876.] —

4) Ausguss, Oeffnung an einem Topf [Suśruta 1, 29, 11.] [?Anekārthasaṃgraha einem Rohr 2, 233, 13. 234, 5.] —

5) Oeffnung am menschlichen und thierischen Leibe (neun an Zahl: Augen, Ohren, Mund, Nasenlöcher, After, Harnweg; beim Weibe ausserdem Brustwarzen und Blutweg). [Suśruta 1, 337, 11. 338, 3. 96, 18. 2, 57, 6. 121, 14. 236, 17.] nāsāsrotogata [239, 17.] śepha (so zu lesen) [?1, 35, 1. - Mahābhārata 1, 814. 3, 15995. 12, 6876. Hemacandra Yogaśāstra 4, 72.] ūrdhvamadhyādharebhyo tha srotobhyaḥ prakṛtīḥ sṛjan [Sūryasiddhānta 12, 26.] —

6) Sinnesorgan [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 31, 235.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1383.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Halāyudha 2, 380.] pañcsrotombu adj. [ŚVETĀŚV. Upakośā 1, 5.] nigṛhya sarvasrotāṃsi [Rāmāyaṇa 7, 106,] [?15.Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 119, 18.] niruddhasrotogaṇa [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 22, 39.] —

7) etwa Geschlechtsfolge: kule srotasi saṃchanne yasya syādyonisaṃkaraḥ [Mahābhārata 13, 2606.] — Häufig (aber nicht in den Bomb. Ausgg.) śrotas geschrieben. — Vgl. ut, ūrdhva, karṇaśrotas (das hierher gehört), karṇasrotas (auch [Harivaṃśa 2921]; könnte an beiden Stellen auch Ohrloch bedeuten), garga, tiryak, tri, prati (auch [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 249]), pratyak, prāk, vi, sa, sapta, sahasra .

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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