disciple; a disciple of the Buddha (the disciples of the Hīnayāna school are sometimes so called in contradistinction to the disciples of the Mahā-yāna school); a Jaina disciple (regarded by orthodox Hindūs as a heretic); a crow; a sound audible from afar; that faculty of the voice which makes a sound audible to a distance; [alchemy] = śarāb (?)