shabda
शब्द śabdaWord or sound; as a means of valid knowledge, the reliable testimony (*apta-vachana*) of a trustworthy authority, which for the orthodox schools includes the Veda.
Where this term appears
- Charvaka: the Indian materialists Philosophy
The usual candidates were perception ( pratyaksha ), inference ( anumana ), and verbal testimony, especially scripture ( shabda ).
- What is a Mantra? Worship
Sound as shabda-brahman , the absolute itself approached through, or as, sound.
- What is Mimamsa? Philosophy
Shabda , sound or word, is eternal, and so is the relation that ties it to what it names; the connection between the word "cow" and cow-ness was never established by anyone, because it always was.
- What is Nyaya? Philosophy
The fourth is shabda , reliable testimony, the word of a trustworthy authority, an apta , which for an orthodox school includes the Vedas.
- What is Vedanta? Philosophy
…e and can be known only through the revealed word, so that scripture, shabda , is the final authority on the ultimate.
- Is Sanskrit the mother of all languages? Journal
The Mimamsa school, whose business is precisely the interpretation of Vedic language, holds that shabda , sound or word, is eternal, and that the relation between a word and its meaning is no human convention.
- 779 CE, and the Śabaras are already a costume Treatise
In a Prakrit romance finished in 779 of the Common Era, a lord in bark and berries speaks a *sāvara-vijjā*, a Śabara knowledge, into a young man's ear. The men…
- Anahata: The Unstruck Sound Treatise
…struck sound, the continuous subtle resonance of the absolute itself, shabda-brahman , the word that is the ground of being.