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===Śruti tradition === The Guru-shishya tradition plays an important part in the ... The word Śrauta is derived from the word Śruti meaning that which is heard. ...

===Śruti=== Śruti (music) Śruti commonly refers to musical pitch. [http://www.karnatik.com/glosss.shtml ...

intended to give it status comparable to that of śruti, or revealed knowledge. ... It is not looked upon as a śruti, or a revealed scripture, but is regarded as ...

to have been directly revealed, and thus are called śruti ("what is heard"). Vaman Shivaram Apte, Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Motilal Banarsidass ...

human compositions"), and thus are called śruti ("what is heard"). ... śruti ; "the heard"). Since post-Vedic times it has been considered ...

instances of the same swara are sometimes called śruti. The three primary registers of Indian classical music are Mandra, Madhya and Tara. Since the octave location ...

Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə ), a sub-school of the Vedānta (literally ...

is counted among the four canonical sacred texts (śruti) of Hinduism, and acceptance of these texts is the criterion of orthodoxy in all systems of Hindu philosophy. ...