Noun:

திருக்குரானில் ஒரு உட்பிரிவு,

suras's Usage Examples:

The superfluous asterism, named Abhijit, included the bright star a Lyrae, under whose influence the gods had vanquished the Asuras.

In fact, the Koran boldly challenged its opponents to produce ten suras, or even a single one, like those of the sacred book, and they never did so.

The suras of the third Meccan period, which form a fairly large part of our present Koran, are almost entirely prosaic.

it is an interesting fact that of these a few have come over from the Abyssinian; such as hawariyun " apostles," maida " table," munafig " doubter, sceptic," ragun " cursed," mihrab " temple "; the first three of these make their first appearance in suras of the Medina period.

In short, however imperfectly the Koran may have been redacted, in the majority of cases the present suras are identical with the originals.

For we cannot suppose that he knew the longer suras by heart so perfectly that he was able after a time to lay his finger upon any particular passage.

In the matter of the rhythms, caesuras and elisions which it allows, the metrical treatment is much more severe than that of Catullus, whose elegiacs are comparatively rude and barbarous; but it is not bound hand and foot, like the Ovidian distich, in a formal and conventional system.

The fact that scraps of poetical phraseology are specially numerous in the earlier suras, enables us to understand why the prosaic mercantile community of Mecca regarded their eccentric townsman as a " poet," or even a possessed poet.

The Vedic deities of the nobler sort, the shining devas, the asuras (the " breathers " or living, perhaps to be identified with the Scandinavian cesir) rose above a vast multitude of demonic powers, many of them doubtless derived from the local customs and beliefs of the native races whom the immigrant Aryans subdued.

In the suras of the second period the imaginative glow perceptibly diminishes; there is still fire and animation, but the tone becomes gradually more prosaic.

That some suras were of considerable length from the first is seen, for example, from xii.

"Many suras treat of a single topic, others embrace several.

Synonyms:

skeletal muscle, soleus muscle, shank, Achilles tendon, striated muscle, tendon of Achilles, soleus, mid-calf, gastrocnemius muscle, calf, gastrocnemius,

Antonyms:

flexor, extensor, end, misconception, beginning,