The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SUTRA
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More clues leading to the result SUTRA
- Indian proverb: Heads of state usually take religion away
- Sacred text I removed from clothes drawer
- Australian half-rewritten scripture
- Smutty read not regularly found in old Indian text
- Texts university faculty turned outside
- Buddhist literature giving us art that’s extraordinary
- Rule backed in part usually
- Shiatsu training incorporates religious aphorisms
- Regular stutter, say, in Indian text
- 14 Indian aphorism about art and American revival
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What does SUTRA mean?
SUTRA noun- A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy.
- A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha.