sruti

American  

[shroot-ee] / ˈʃrʊt i /

noun

Hinduism.

1. the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.

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Etymology

Origin of sruti

From the Sanskrit word śruti

Example Sentences

As Sruti Suryanarayanan, of the Asian American social justice group South Asian Americans Leading Together, told me, “This election season’s going to be really wild because we’ve never seen Indian Americans so specifically pandered to by two electoral candidates in such different ways.”

From Slate

V Ramanarayan, editor-in-chief of Sruti, an Indian performing arts magazine, said: "Even in his 80s he would get along so well with young people."

From BBC

Highlights include the vocalist Joan La Barbara leading a call-and-response piece in Washington Heights; a piece for bicycle bells performed by cyclists in Prospect Park; a High Line Soundwalk in which footsteps are rendered into sounds ranging from electric guitar to water splashes via a smartphone app; Parranda caroling in the Bronx and Brooklyn; drumming in the West Village; lantern-illuminated medieval melodies through Central Park en route to Cathedral of St. John the Divine; a kalimba parade in Bushwick and sruti boxes in Astoria.

From New York Times

So sruti is opposed to smriti.

From Project Gutenberg

The Reverend Dr. K. M. Banerjea thus writes: "Of the inscrutable Will of the Almighty, that without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin, this, too, appears imbedded in ancient Ayrian tradition in the sruti or hearings of our ancestors."

From Project Gutenberg