SrAvaka
śrāvaka (so in Skt. , and Pali sāvaka, in Skt. also of Jains and other sects), a (Buddhist) disciple , in Mahāyāna texts regularly used of followers of the Hīnayāna, passim : technical description, sarveṣām arhatāṃ kṣīṇāśravāṇām uṣitavratānāṃ samyagājñāsuvimuktacittānāṃ parikṣīṇabhavasaṃyojanānām anuprāptasvakārthānām Mv i.248.10 f. , repeated below; a similar formula in Pali , Vin. i.183.24 etc. ; stages and types of śr° Mvy 1008—1028 ; names of well-known śr° ib. 1029—1073 ; their qualities 1075—1126 . PTSD says a sāvaka is ‘never an Arahant’, but see CPD s.v. araha(t) 2.