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Sutra   Listen
noun
Sutra  n.  (pl. sutras)  
1.
(a)
A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.
(b)
A collection of such aphorisms.
2.
pl. A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.





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"Sutra" Quotes from Famous Books



... open, but a melancholy rhythmic chant from within tells us that the noonday service is being held: the priests are chanting the syllables of Sanscrit texts transliterated into Chinese—intoning the Sutra called the Sutra of the Lotus of the Good Law. One of those who chant keeps time by tapping with a mallet, cotton- wrapped, some grotesque object shaped like a dolphin's head, all lacquered in scarlet and gold, which gives forth a ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn


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