(correctly, ಶ್ರಾವಣ) 1. Śrāvaṇa, the fifth month in the Hindu lunar calendar.

a kind of plant that grows during this month in rice-fields.

its flower.

a Jaina or Buddhist nun.

a kind of tax.

the act of hearing.

the organ of hearing; the ear.

a pair of tongs used by goldsmiths.

a monk (in gen.).

a Jaina or Buddhist monk.

a follower of jaina religion.

ಸವಣಗೆಯ್ savaṇagey an extent of land given as a gift to a jaina mendicant.

= ಸವಡು3.

the act or an instance of extracting the juice from the creeper Sarcostemma acidum (sōma plant).

an elaborate religious sacrifice.

anything that is offered to a deity in a sacrifice by pouring it to the sacrificial fire.

a bathing.

the sacrificial fire.

a bathing of of an idol with holy water, milk, etc.

a particular system of reckoning time, and dividing it into years, months, days, etc.

the concluding part of a religious sacrifice.

a solar month.

that part of the day from the sunrise to the sunset.

the part around the anus of a horse.