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sgra

Comment: This is one of the five divisions of external matter (phyi'i bem po): form (gzugs); sound (sgra); smell (dri); taste (ro); tangible object (reg bya). Assertions on sounds assume considerable importance in Buddhist tenet systems since they provide an avenue for discounting non-Buddhist assertions that the sounds of the Vedas are eternally authoritative. Buddhist systems emphasize that sounds do not of their accord express their meanings but are arbitrary conventions.

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