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 .