śrutiḥ

1. śruti

1. śruti f. hearing, listening (śrutimabhinīya, ‘feigning to hear’; śrutiṃvaconugāṃkṛ, ‘to listen to a speech’), ŚBr. &c. &c.

2. śruti

that which has been heard or communicated from the beginning, sacred knowledge orally transmitted by the Brāhmans from generation to generation, the Veda ( i.e. sacred eternal sounds or words as eternally heard by certain holy sages called Ṛṣi s, and so differing from smṛti or what is only remembere

3. śruti

(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.