svara

1. سثَر

4. svar ind. (in Yajur-veda also suvar) (used in Veda as nom. acc. loc. , or gen. , in Naiṣ. vi, 99 also as abl. ; from the weak base sūr the RV. forms the gen. sūras and the dat. sūre [ iv, 3, 8 ]), the sun, sunshine, light, lustre, RV. ; AV. ; VS.

2. سثَر

bright space or sky, heaven (as distinguished from div, which is regarded as the vault above it; often ‘heaven’ as a paradise and as the abode of the gods and the Blest, in AV. also of the Asura s; svaḥprayātaḥ, ‘gone to heaven’ i.e. ‘departed this life’), RV. &c. &c.

3. سثَر

the space above the sun or between the sun and the polar star, the region of the planets and constellations (regarded as the 3rd of the 7 worlds [see loka] and the 3rd of the three Vyāhṛti s [ i.e. bhurbhuvaḥsvaḥ]; svar is pronounced after om and before the Gāyatrī by every Brāhman on beginning his

4. سثَرَ

svara or svara, m. ( ifc. f(ā). ) sound, noise, RV. &c. &c.

5. سثَرَ

tone in recitation &c. (either high or low), accent (of which there are three kinds, udātta, anudātta qq.vv. , and svarita, col. 3), a note of the musical scale (of which seven [rarely six or eight] are enumerated, 1. niṣāda; 2. ṛṣabha; 3. gāndhāra; 4. ṣaḍja; 5. madhyama; 6. dhaivata; 7. pañcama

6. سثَرَ

a vowel (either dīrgha, ‘long’; or hrasva, ‘short’; or pluta, ‘prolated’), Prāt. ; ŚrS. ; MBh. &c.