(श्रावक) nyan.thos}} Śrāvaka or Shravaka (Sanskrit) or Sāvaka (Pāli) means "a hearer" or, more generally, "disciple." This term's used by both Buddhists and Jains. In Jainism, a shravaka's any lay Jain. Thus the term shravaka has been used ofor the jain community itself (for example see Sarak and Saraogi). In Buddhism, the term's sometimes reserved for distinguished disciples of the Buddha. Buddhist references In Nikaya Buddhism, s&… (More on Savaka)