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svara

, svaraṇa &c. See p. 1285.

svára or svará, m. (ifc. f(A). ) sound, noise, [RV.] &c. &c.

voice, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

tone in recitation &c. (either high or low), accent (of which there are three kinds, udātta, anudātta qq.vv., and svarita, col. 3), a note of the musical scale (of which seven [rarely six or eight] are enumerated, 1. niṣāda; 2. ṛṣabha; 3. gāndhāra; 4. ṣaḍja; 5. madhyama; 6. dhaivata; 7. pañcama [described as resembling respectively the notes of an elephant, bull, goat, peacock, curlew or heron, horse, and Koil ; and designated by their initial letters or syllables thus, ni; ṛ; ga; ṣa; ma; dha; pa], but the order is sometimes changed, ṣadja being placed first, and niṣāda last), [Prāt.]; [ŚrS.]; [Saṃgīt.]; [MBh.] &c.

a symbolical expression for the number ‘seven’, [VarBṛS.]

a vowel (either dīrgha, ‘long’; or hrasva, ‘short’; or pluta, ‘prolated’), [Prāt.]; [ŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.

air breathed through the nostrils, [ChUp.]

N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ.]

svára (am), n. a musical note, [Sāy.] on [RV. x, 146, 2]

N. of various Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]