Anekashrita, Anekāśrita, Aneka-ashrita: 3 definitions

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Anekashrita means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Anekāśrita can be transliterated into English as Anekasrita or Anekashrita, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anekāśrita (अनेकाश्रित).—a. (in Vais. Phil.) dwelling or abiding in more than one (such as saṃyoga, sāmānya); एतेऽनेकाश्रिता गुणाः (ete'nekāśritā guṇāḥ) Bhāsā. P.; dependence upon more than one.

Anekāśrita is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms aneka and āśrita (आश्रित). See also (synonyms): anekāśraya.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anekāśrita (अनेकाश्रित):—[from an-eka] mfn. (in Vaiśeṣika [philosophy]) dwelling or abiding in more than one.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anekāśrita (अनेकाश्रित):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f. n.

(-taḥ-tā-tam) Depending upon more than one, abiding in more than one; according to the Vaiśeṣika phil. such dependance is the characteristic of the notion of conjunction (saṃyoga), of disjunction (vibhāga), of separatedness prevailing between two or more things (dvipṛthaktvādi) and of the numerals from two upwards. See the preceding. E. aneka and āśrita.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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