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ौु ित śruti, vulg. śurti, surtī, 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; any Vedic or sacred text; (in Geom.) the diagonal of a tetragon; the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle; (in Music) a particular division of the octave, a quarter tone or interval (of which twenty-two are enumerated, four constituting a major tone, three a minor, and two a semi-tone):—śruti-sār, s.m. The essence or substance of the Vedas:—śruti-većak, s.m. 'One who traffics in the Vedas,' an epithet of any Brāhma.