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Line 1: {{Short description\|Hindu philosophical concept}} {{redirect\|Aksara\|the Javanese script known as Aksara or Hanacaraka\|Javanese script}} {{Hinduism}} '''Akshara''' ({{~~lang-~~langx\|sa\|अक्षर\|translit=akṣara\|translit-std=IAST\|lit=imperishable, indestructible, fixed, immutable}}) is a term used in the [[Vyākaraṇa\|traditional grammar]] of the [[Sanskrit language]] and in the [[Vedanta]] school of [[Indian philosophy]]. The term is derived from अ, ''[[Privative a\|a-]]'' "not" and क्षर्, ''kṣar-'' "melt away, perish". The uniting aspect of its use is the mystical view of language, or ''[[shabda]]'', in Hindu tradition, and especially the notion of the ''syllable'' as a kind of immutable (or "atomic") substance of both language and truth, most prominently, the mystical syllable [[Om\|Aum]], which is given the name of ''ekākṣara'' (i.e. ''eka-akṣara''), which can be translated as both "the sole imperishable thing" and as "a single syllable".