स्रवन्ती

Nominalization of the feminine of स्रवत् (sravat, “flowing”, present participle), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Literally meaning "that which is flowing".

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɾɐ́.ʋɐn.tiː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪ɾɐ.ʋɐn̪.t̪iː/

स्रवन्ती • (srávantī) stem, f

1. a river, stream
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.46.7:

     अहे॑र्या॒तारं॒ कम॑पश्य इन्द्र हृ॒दि यत्ते॑ ज॒घ्नुषो॒ भीरग॑च्छत् ।
     नव॑ च॒ यन्न॑व॒तिं च॒ स्रव॑न्तीः श्ये॒नो न भी॒तो अत॑रो॒ रजां॑सि ॥

     áheryātā́raṃ kámapaśya indra hṛdí yátte jaghnúṣo bhī́rágacchat.
     náva ca yánnavatíṃ ca srávantīḥ śyenó ná bhītó átaro rájāṃsi.

     Whom did you see, who was there to avenge the Dragon, Indra, that fear possessed your heart when you had slain him;
     That, like a hawk affrighted, through the regions, you crossed nine-and-ninety flowing rivers?

• Pali: savantī
• Prakrit: 𑀲𑀯𑀁𑀢𑀻 (savaṃtī)
  • Assamese: সোঁত (xü̃t, “current”), সোঁতা (xü̃ta, “branch of a river”)
  • Bhojpuri: सोंता (sōntā, “stream”)
• → Telugu: స్రవంతి (sravanti)

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्रवन्ती”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 582/2.