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śrāvaka

mf(ikA)n. hearing, listening to (comp.), [Vās.]

audible from afar, [Śiś.]

m. a pupil, disciple, [Mālatīm.]

a disciple of the Buddha (the disciples of the Hīna-yāna school are sometimes so called in contradistinction to the disciples of the Mahā-yāna school; properly only those who heard the law from the Buddha's own lips have the name , and of these two, viz. Sāriputta and Moggallāna, were Agra-śrāvakas, ‘chief disciples’, while eighty, including Kāśyapa, Upāli, and Ānanda, were Mahā-śrāvakas or ‘great disciples’), [MWB. 47, 75]

a Jaina disciple (regarded by orthodox Hindūs as a heretic), [MW.]

a crow, [L.]

a sound audible from afar, [Śiś.]

that faculty of the voice which makes a sound audible to a distance, [L.]

&c. See p. 1097, col. 1.