○sūtra n. (cf. spanda-sūtra) N. of the aphorisms of the Śaiva philosophy (attributed to the god Śiva) Sarvad.

• N. of the 14 Sūtras with which Pāṇini opens his grammar (containing a peculiar method of arranging the alphabet or alphabetical sounds, said to have been communicated to him by the god Sūtras)

• -jālagrantha m. -vimarśinī f. -vivṛti f. N. of wks