श्रावक

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Noun

श्रावक • (śrāvaka) stem, m (feminine श्राविका) (Classical Sanskrit)

  1. disciple

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of श्रावक (śrāvaka)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative श्रावकः
śrāvakaḥ 		श्रावकौ
śrāvakau 		श्रावकाः
śrāvakāḥ
Vocative श्रावक
śrāvaka 		श्रावकौ
śrāvakau 		श्रावकाः
śrāvakāḥ
Accusative श्रावकम्
śrāvakam 		श्रावकौ
śrāvakau 		श्रावकान्
śrāvakān
Instrumental श्रावकेण
śrāvakeṇa 		श्रावकाभ्याम्
śrāvakābhyām 		श्रावकैः
śrāvakaiḥ
Dative श्रावकाय
śrāvakāya 		श्रावकाभ्याम्
śrāvakābhyām 		श्रावकेभ्यः
śrāvakebhyaḥ
Ablative श्रावकात्
śrāvakāt 		श्रावकाभ्याम्
śrāvakābhyām 		श्रावकेभ्यः
śrāvakebhyaḥ
Genitive श्रावकस्य
śrāvakasya 		श्रावकयोः
śrāvakayoḥ 		श्रावकाणाम्
śrāvakāṇām
Locative श्रावके
śrāvake 		श्रावकयोः
śrāvakayoḥ 		श्रावकेषु
śrāvakeṣu

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Further reading

  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “śrāvaka”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “श्रावक”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • Monier Williams (1899) “श्रावक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1097, column 1.
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