śrota (15330)

śrota
Entry 15330, Page 537, Col. 1

(Srota, Srota)
śrota¦, m. or nt. (Sktization of MIndic sota, as in Pali, AMg., which historically represents Skt. śrotra; there is no Skt. śrotas, ear, which Weller 39 considers correct, except in the Lex. Trik.), ear; faculty of hearing: esp. śrotam avadadhata LV 409.10; (read) śrotam odhāya Mv i.10.8; avahita-śrotaḥ LV 442.1--2 and °tā Mv i.158.3 (on these and Pali equivalents see avadadhati); cakṣur anityam adhruvaṃ tatha śrota (best mss. śrotra) ghrāṇaṃ (etc.) LV 419.5 (vs); śrotābhāsam avagacchati Mv i.6.3, and others, see s.v. ābhāsa, the range of hearing; badhirās taṃ muhūrtaṃ śrotaṃ pratilabhante Mv iii.256.3, got hearing; viśuddha-śroto Mv ii.382.24 (vs), cited as °śrotro Śikṣ 304.7; śrotendriyeṇa…Mv ii.383.2.