Dogma vs Matra - What's the difference?
dogma | matra |
An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.
A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
(music) A term in Indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala
A term in Indian poetics and linguistics for the measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora
The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in the Devanagari script
An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts
As nouns the difference between dogma and matra
is that dogma is while matra is (music) a term in indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.dogma
English
(wikipedia dogma)Noun
(en-noun)- ''The unforgiving dogma of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as law.
- In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ''ex cathedra'' to make them part of the official faith.