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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anyathākāra (अन्यथाकार).—changing, altering.

-ram adv. in a different manner, differently P.III.4.27.

Derivable forms: anyathākāraḥ (अन्यथाकारः).

Anyathākāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anyathā and kāra (कार).

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

Anyathākāra (अन्यथाकार):—[=anya-thā-kāra] [from anya-thā > anya] m. doing otherwise changing

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

Anyathākāra (अन्यथाकार):—[tatpurusha compound] I. m.

(-raḥ) Altering, changing, e. g. the sense of an expression, by punning on it; vakroktau parokteranyathākāraḥ. E. anyathā and kāra. Ii. ind.

(-ram) In another manner, differently; e. g. anyathākāraṃ bhuṅkte he eats in another manner. [According to the Kāśikā on Pāṇini Iii. 4. 27. kāram would in this case be a kind of expletive or superfluous, the word of the Sūtra siddhāprayogaḥ being thus commented by it: kathaṃ punarasau siddhāprayogaḥ . nirarthakatvānna prayogamarhati . evameva prayujyate; and similarly the Siddh. K.: kṛñvyarthatvātprayogānarha ityarthaḥ; but Bhaṭṭoji in the Prauḍhaman. is probably more correct when he refers to the bearing of the word (śābdabodha) and says, that kāram effectuates a stronger connexion between the verb and the adverb than would be expressed without it, when siddhāprayoga in the Sūtra of Pāṇini would not convey the notion of ‘absolute superfluity’ but rather that of ‘not excessive necessity’: śābdabodhe tu vailakṣaṇyamastyeva . tathā hi . kriyāsāmānyavacanaḥ karotiḥ . tadīyaśca prakāro nyathādiśabdacatuṣṭvenocyate . evaṃ ca . anyathākāramityādibhiścaturbhiḥ prakāraviśeṣaviśiṣṭakriyā bodhyate . sā ca bhuṅktephalaviśiṣṭakriyāṃ prati viśeṣaṇatayā saṃbadhyate . ekasyā api kriyāyā viśeṣaṇoparāgeṇa bhinnāyā viśeṣaṇaviśeṣyabhāvasaṃbhavāt . kathaṃ tarhi siddhāprayogaścedityuktamiti cet . anatiprayojanatvāditi gṛhāṇa .. &c. Patanjali and his comm. give no gloss on this Sūtra.] E. anyathā and kāram (kṛ, kṛt aff. ṇamul).

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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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Partial matches: Anyatha, Kara.

Starts with: Anyathakaram, Anyathakarana.

Full-text: Anyathakaram, Karam, Namul.

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