sūtra (n)
Meanings
- a fibre
- a girdle
- a kind of tree
- a line
- a measuring line
- a short sentence or aphoristic rule
- a sketch
- a thread
- any work or manual consisting of strings of such rules hanging together like threads
- cord
- direction
- line
- plan
- rule
- string
- stroke
- that which like a thread runs through or holds together everything
- the sacred thread or cord worn by the first three classes
- wire
- yarn
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