Sutras is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUTRAS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• SUTRA, (Sanskrit) a precept; an aphorism; a brief rule, also SUTTA
• a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature, or a set of these on grammar or Hindu law or philosophy.
• a Buddhist or Jainist scripture.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a Hindu aphorism

Words related to SUTRAS

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Words that contain SUTRAS

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How to use SUTRAS in a sentence

• When they brought the Sutras forth, three lofty seats had been prepared and grandly ornamented.
• In connexion therewith the Sutras quote the views of three ancient teachers about the relation in which the individual soul stands to Brahman.
• Sutras 23-26 further dwell on Brahman being in reality devoid of all distinctive attributes which are altogether due to the upadhis.
• Sutras 51 and 52 discuss, according to Ramanuja, the question when the vidya, which is the result of the means described in III, 4, arises.
• In Sutras 12-14 Jaimini defends the opposite view, according to which the soul of the vidvan goes to the highest Brahman, not to the karyam brahma.
• And the Sutras themselves do not tend to weaken this preliminary want of confidence.
• The previous considerations leave us, I am inclined to think, no choice but to side with Ramanuja as to the general subject-matter of the fourth adhyaya of the Sutras.
• In reality the Vedanta-passages referred to by the Sutras are discussed here.
• The Sutras are therefore to be explained as follows.
• They are classed as sutras, being described as discourses delivered by the Buddha on the Vulture Peak.
• There are a great number of other sutras which are important for the history of literature, although little attention is paid to them by Buddhists at the present day.
• One of the sutras most read in China and admired because its style has a literary quality unusual in Buddhist works is commonly known as the Leng-yen-ching.
• So the study of the sutras and the works of Asanga and Vasubandhu is approved by a Sarvastivadin.
• But the indiscriminate acceptance of sutras led to a creed in which the supernatural played a larger part.
• Though the sutras are the acknowledged text-book of Vedantism, their utterances are in practice less important than subsequent explanations of them.
• The second subdivision, or Hinayana Sutras, which is less numerous and complicated than that containing the Mahayana Sutras, shows clearly the character of the whole collection.
• This is followed by several translations of shorter versions including two of the little sutras called the Heart of the Prajnaparamita, which fills only one leaf.
• The second and third classes are collections of sutras which no longer exist as collections in Sanskrit, though the Sanskrit text of some individual sutras is extant.
• That called Pao-chi or Ratnakuta opens with a collection of forty-nine sutras which includes the longer version of the Sukhavativyuha.
• This collection is reckoned as one work, but the other items in the same class are all or nearly all of them duplicate translations of separate sutras contained in it.
• These characteristics are still more prominent in the seventh class, consisting of sutras which exist in a single translation only.
• In the holy sutras it is written that those strongest in wrong-doing can become, by power of good resolve, the strongest in right-doing.
• The sutras thus contain sometimes allusions to the views of the rival schools and indicate the way in which they could be refuted.
• All schools of philosophy except the Carvakas believed in it and so little is known to us of the Carvaka sutras that it is difficult to say what they did to refute this doctrine.
• The extent of this chapter is also disproportionately small, as it contains only 34 sutras, whereas the average number of sutras in other chapters is between 51 to 55.
• The titles of Sakya-Muni and Sakya-Simha have also passed into common use and the former is his usual designation in the Sanskrit sutras.
• It is less noticeable in Sanskrit Buddhist sutras than in the Pali but is very marked in Jain literature.
• There is little personal background in the Upanishads, none at all in the Sankhya and Vedanta sutras.

Similar words containing SUTRA without suffix s

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