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The corpus record — Sanskrit

śabdāñ

śabda m. (in DhyānabUp. also n. ifc. f(ā). perhaps connected with √ 3. śap cf. also 2. śap) sound, noise, voice, tone, note (śabdaṃkṛ, to utter a sound, raise the voice, cry aloud; sound is supposed to be sevenfold [ MBh. xii, 6858 ] or eightfold [ Dharmas. 35 ] or tenfold [ MBh. xiv, 1418 ] ; in th

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What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. śabda

śabda m. (in DhyānabUp. also n. ifc. f(ā). perhaps connected with √ 3. śap cf. also 2. śap) sound, noise, voice, tone, note (śabdaṃkṛ, to utter a sound, raise the voice, cry aloud; sound is supposed to be sevenfold [ MBh. xii, 6858 ] or eightfold [ Dharmas. 35 ] or tenfold [ MBh. xiv, 1418 ] ; in the Mīmāṃsā it is taught to be eternal)

2. śabda

verbal communication or testimony, oral tradition, verbal authority or evidence (as one of the Pramāṇa s q.v. ), Nyāyas. ; Sarvad.

3. śābda

based on sounds, expressed in words oral, verbal, ( esp. ) resting on or enjoined by sacred sound ( i.e. on the Veda ; with brahman. n. = ‘the Veda ’), ŚBr. &c.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.