As a deity name
Name 770 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 875 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 953 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 381 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
As a Hindi name
श्रुति · noun · feminine
श्रवण करने की क्रिया या भाव । सुनना · सुनने की इंद्रिय । श्रवण । कान · वह जो सुना जाय । सुनी हुई बात — Śabdasāgara
श्रुति · śruti · s.f.
The sense of hearing; the ear; anything heard, sound, report, rumour, intelligence; that which was heard or revealed from the beginning, revelation, revealed law, holy writ, the Veda — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 724
श्रुति · feminine
a female given name, Sruti or Shruti, from Sanskrit
श्रुति · feminine
hearing, listening; something heard, hearsay; shruti: sacred knowledge of the Vedas traditionally transmitted orally; shruti: the shortest discernable interval of pitch, 22 of which are in an octave
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- Sanskrit श्रु (śru) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Sanskrit -ति (-ti) Sanskrit श्रुति (śruti)bor. Hindi श्रुति Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रुति (śruti).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
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 sai…
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "śruti" is the locative of "śrut" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "śruti" is the vocative of "śrutin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
1. śruti f. hearing, listening (śrutim abhinīya, ‘feigning to hear’; śrutiṃ vaco 'nugāṃ-√ kṛ, ‘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.
1. śrut mfn. hearing, listening (only in next and ifc.; cf. karṇa-, dīrgha-śrut &c.)
that which is heard, sound, noise, Harav.
śrutin mfn. one who has heard g. iṣṭādi
obeying, observing, W.
Alternative readings
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