Anantara, Anamtara, Anantarā: 24 definitions
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In Hinduism
Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)
Source: Wikisource: A dictionary of Sanskrit grammarAnantara (अनन्तर).—(l) immediate, contiguous अव्यवहित (avyavahita). cf. हलोनन्तराः संयोगः (halonantarāḥ saṃyogaḥ) P.1. 1.7, also गतिरनन्तरः (gatiranantaraḥ) P. VI.2.49: cf. अनन्तरं संयोगः (anantaraṃ saṃyogaḥ) V. Pr.I.48. ; (2) nearest, as compared with others of the same type; cf. अथवा अनन्तरा या प्राप्तिः सा प्रतिषिध्यते (athavā anantarā yā prāptiḥ sā pratiṣidhyate) M.Bh. on I.1.43; cf. Pari. Śek. अनन्तरस्य विधिर्वा भवति प्रतिषेधो वा (anantarasya vidhirvā bhavati pratiṣedho vā), which means that a prescriptive or prohibitive rule applies to the nearest and not to the distant one.Par.Śek. 61,Cān. Par.30.

Vyakarana (व्याकरण, vyākaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.
Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)
Source: SOAS University of London: Protective Rites in the Netra TantraAnantara (अनन्तर) refers to “immediately after,”, according to the Netratantra of Kṣemarāja: a Śaiva text from the 9th century in which Śiva (Bhairava) teaches Pārvatī topics such as metaphysics, cosmology, and soteriology.—Accordingly, [verse 11.1-24ab, while describing the appearance and worship of Tumburu]—“[...] [He worships] Deva as Tumburu in the middle of an eight petaled lotus, in the maṇḍala, [starting] in the East, O Devī. [...] He installs Gāyatrī and Sāvitrī to the left and the right. [The Sādhaka] installs a hook above and immediately after, māyā below (anantara—māyāṃ vinyasyet tad anantaram). All this is always to be joined with the root mantra. [...]”.

Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Source: archive.org: Catalogue of Pancaratra Agama TextsAnantara (अनन्तर) refers to “that which is to be done after certain rites”, as discussed in chapter 19 of the Viṣṇusaṃhitā: a Sanskrit text written in 2600 verses which covers typical Pāñcarātra topics through a narrative dialogue between Aupagāyana and Siddha Sumati.—Description of the chapter [pratiṣṭhā-anantara-kriyā]: Among the concluding concerns of the pratiṣṭhā-rites are the installation of various other powers around the temple-precincts. [...]

Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and DoctrinesProximity (anantara), is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: academia.edu: The Structure and Meanings of the Heruka MaṇḍalaAnantara (अनन्तर) is the name of a Vīra (hero) who, together with the Ḍākinī named Anantarī forms one of the 36 pairs situated in the Cittacakra, according to the 10th century Ḍākārṇava chapter 15. Accordingly, the cittacakra refers to one of the three divisions of the nirmāṇa-puṭa (‘emanation layer’), situated in the Herukamaṇḍala. The 36 pairs of Ḍākinīs and Vīras [viz., Anantara] are black in color; they each have one face and four arms; they hold a skull bowl, a skull staff, a small drum, and a knife.

Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Source: The University of Sydney: A study of the Twelve ReflectionsAnantara (अनन्तर) refers to “continuously”, according to the 11th century Jñānārṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “This very same [one], whose mind is delighted with the prosperity of heaven, alone enjoys the divine nectar of pleasure in heaven continuously produced by desire (saṃkalpa-anantara-utpanna). For this embodied soul there is not another companion in union and in separation, in birth or in death and at the time of pleasure and pain”.

Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryanantara : (adj.) next; adjoining; immediately following.
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) anantara (အနန္တရ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[na+antara]
[န+အန္တရ]
2) anantarā (အနန္တရာ) [(bya) (ဗျ)]—
[antarā sattamīanitea so ni. (.115va. nīti,sutta,nhā-312-).]
[အန္တရာကဲ့သို့ သတ္တမီအနက်၌ ဖြစ်သော နိပါတ်။ (ဓာန်။၁၁၅ဝ။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ၊နှာ-၃၁၂-တို့လည်းကြည့်)။]
[Pali to Burmese]
Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)1) anantara—
(Burmese text): (၁) အခြား မရှိသော။ (န) (၂) အခြား မရှိသော-တရား-ကာလ၊ အခြားမရှိခြင်း။ (၃) အနန္တရ-ပစ္စည်း။ အနန္တရပစ္စယ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၄) အတွင်းမဟုတ်သော။ (၅) အထူးမရှိသော၊ အတူတူဖြစ်သော။ (၆) ဘေးရန်-အန္တရာယ်-မရှိသော။ (၇) စုတိ၏ အခြားမဲ့၌ ဖြစ်သော အကျိုး။ အနန္တရကရဏသီလ-ကြည့်။ (၈) အနန္တရိယကံ။ အနန္တရာပယုတ္တ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Not otherwise. (2) Not otherwise - lawful - period, absence of otherwise. (3) Infinite objects. Also refer to infinite materials. (4) Not within. (5) Not special, identical. (6) No danger or risk. (7) Benefits that arise from absence of aggregate. Refer to infinite ethical conduct. (8) Infinite destiny. Refer to infinite conditions.
2) anantarā—
(Burmese text): (၁)အခြားမဲ့၌၊ အခြားမဲ့မှ။ (၂) အခြားမရှိ၊ တဆက်တည်း။ (၃) အနန္တရိယကံ။ အနန္တရာပယုတ္တ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) In particular, from elsewhere. (2) There is nothing else, a single instance. (3) Infinite fortune. Infinite fortune - observe.

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryanantara (अनंतर).—ad Afterwards, then. 2 prep After.
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anantara (अनंतर).—a (S a & antara) Following without interval; closely consecutive.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishanantara (अनंतर).—ad Then. prep After. a Closely consecutive.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर).—a. [nāsti antaraṃ vyavadhānaṃ, madhyaḥ; avakāśaḥ &c. yasya]
1) Having no interior or interior space, limitless; तदेतत् ब्रह्म अपूर्वमनन्तरं अवाह्यम् (tadetat brahma apūrvamanantaraṃ avāhyam) Br. Up.2.5.19.
2) Having no interval or interstice or pause (of space or time); compact, close; हलोऽनन्तराः संयोगः (halo'nantarāḥ saṃyogaḥ) P.I.1.7, See संयोग (saṃyoga).
3) (a) Contiguous, neighbouring, adjoining; Rām.4.21. 14; अनयत् प्रभुशक्तिसंपदा वशमेको नृपतीननन्तरान् (anayat prabhuśaktisaṃpadā vaśameko nṛpatīnanantarān) R.8.19; भारतवर्षा- दुत्तरेण अनन्तरे किंपुरुषनाम्नि वर्षे (bhāratavarṣā- duttareṇa anantare kiṃpuruṣanāmni varṣe) K.136; immediately adjoining; Kirātārjunīya 2.53. R.7.21; not distant from (with abl.); आत्मनोऽनन्तरममात्यपदं ग्राहितः (ātmano'nantaramamātyapadaṃ grāhitaḥ) Mu.4; ब्रह्मावर्तादनन्तरः (brahmāvartādanantaraḥ) Manusmṛti 2.19 (Kull. anantaraḥ kiṃcidūnaḥ); अरेः अनन्तरं मित्रम् (areḥ anantaraṃ mitram) 7.158; or in comp.; विषयानन्तरो राजा शत्रुः (viṣayānantaro rājā śatruḥ) Ak. who is an immediate neighbour.
4) Immediately before or after; Rām.4. 29.31. तदिदं क्रियतामनन्तरं भवता बन्धुजनप्रयोजनम् (tadidaṃ kriyatāmanantaraṃ bhavatā bandhujanaprayojanam) Kumārasambhava 4.32 soon after, just afterwards; अनन्तरोदीरितलक्ष्मभाजौ पादौ यदीयावुपजातयस्ताः (anantarodīritalakṣmabhājau pādau yadīyāvupajātayastāḥ) Chānd. M. having characteristics mentioned just before.
5) Following, coming close upon (in comp.); शङ्खस्वनानन्तरपुष्पवृष्टि (śaṅkhasvanānantarapuṣpavṛṣṭi) Kumārasambhava 1.23;2.53; °कर- णीयम् (kara- ṇīyam) Ś.4 the next duty, what should be done next.
6) Belonging to the caste immediately following; पुत्रा येऽनन्तरस्त्रीजाः (putrā ye'nantarastrījāḥ) Manusmṛti 1.14.
7) Uninterrupted, unbroken, continuous. सुखदुःखावृते लोके नेहास्त्येकमनन्तरम् (sukhaduḥkhāvṛte loke nehāstyekamanantaram) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.153. 89.
8) Straight, direct (sākṣāt). अथवाऽनन्तरकृतं किंचिदेव निदर्शनम् (athavā'nantarakṛtaṃ kiṃcideva nidarśanam) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.35.9.
-ram [na. ta.]
1) Contiguity, proximity; अनन्तरविहिते चास्यासने (anantaravihite cāsyāsane) K.93.
2) Brahman, the supreme soul (as being of one entire essence).
-ram ind. [Strictly it is acc. of time kālātyantasaṃyogaḥ; nāsti antaraṃ yathā syā tathā]
1) Immediately after, afterwards.
2) (with a prepositional force) After (with abl.); पुराणपत्त्रापग- मादनन्तरम् (purāṇapattrāpaga- mādanantaram) R.3.7; त्यागाच्छान्तिरनन्तरम् (tyāgācchāntiranantaram) Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 12.12; गोदानविधे- रनन्तरम् (godānavidhe- ranantaram) R.3.33,36.;2.71; स्वामिनोऽनन्तरं भृत्याः (svāmino'nantaraṃ bhṛtyāḥ) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 1; rarely with gen.; अङ्गदं चाधिरूढस्तु लक्ष्मणोऽनन्तरं मम (aṅgadaṃ cādhirūḍhastu lakṣmaṇo'nantaraṃ mama) Rām.; or in comp.; घनोदयाः प्राक् तदनन्तरं पयः (ghanodayāḥ prāk tadanantaraṃ payaḥ) Ś7.3.; R.4. 2.; Manusmṛti 3.252, Y.2.41; वचनानन्तरमेव (vacanānantarameva) K.78 immediately after those words.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर).—mfn.
(-raḥ-rā-raṃ) 1. Next, immediately following. 2. Next of kin or in succession. 3. Close, compact. n.
(-raṃ) Extreme propinquity E. an neg. and antara between; having nothing intermediate.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर).—[an-antara], I. adj., f. rā. 1. Having nothing intermediate, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 2, 19. 2. Immediately bordering, next, [Nala] 22, 16. 3. Immediately following, Bhāṣāp. 123. 4. Of an immediately following caste, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 10, 14. 5. Allowing no delay, necessary,
Anantara (अनन्तर).—[adjective] having nothing within or between, immediately adjoing or following (in time and space), next, [especially] in caste. anantaram [adverb] close by; thereupon, at once, soon after ([genetive], [ablative], or —°).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Anantara (अनन्तर):—[=an-antara] mf(ā)n. having no interior
2) [v.s. ...] having no interstice or interval or pause
3) [v.s. ...] uninterrupted, unbroken
4) [v.s. ...] continuous
5) [v.s. ...] immediately adjoining, contiguous
6) [v.s. ...] next of kin, etc.
7) [v.s. ...] compact, close
8) [v.s. ...] m. a neighbouring rival, a rival neighbour
9) [v.s. ...] n. contiguousness
10) [v.s. ...] n. Brahma or the supreme soul (as being of one entire essence)
11) [=an-antara] m. (also) the next (younger) brother after ([ablative]), [Mahābhārata]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर):—[bahuvrihi compound] m. f. n.
(-raḥ-rā-ram) 1) Having nothing in-termediate, having no interval or defect, uninterrupted, entire; in the Upanishads also as an epithet of Brahman (n.) or the supreme soul, of which it is said that it has nothing before it nor after it, nor between ‘before’ and ‘after’ it nor besides it, or that it exists without interruption or defect, entire.
2) Next, immediately following or preceding.
3) Next of kin, in succession, in caste.
4) Close, compact.—anantaram immediately, afterwards; it is followed or preceded sometimes by a noun depending upon it in the ablative or genitive. E. a priv. and anantara.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर):—[ana+ntara] (raṃ) 1. n. Extreme propinquity. a. Near, next. adv. After.
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Anantara (अनन्तर) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Aṇaṃtara.
[Sanskrit to German]
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryAṇaṃtara (अणंतर) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Anantara.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusAnaṃtara (ಅನಂತರ):—
1) [adjective] having no interior.
2) [adjective] having no interval; uninterrupted.
3) [adjective] without any difference; identical.
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Anaṃtara (ಅನಂತರ):—[adverb] at a later time; subsequently; afterwards.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Source: unoes: Nepali-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर):—adj. 1. not separated; 2. adjacent; 3. unbroken; 4. continuous;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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Partial matches: Antara, Aan, An, Na.
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