Aniruktagana, Aniruktagāna, Anirukta-gana: 3 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Aniruktagāna (अनिरुक्तगान).—indistinct singing or humming, a particular mode of chanting the सामवेद (sāmaveda).

Derivable forms: aniruktagānam (अनिरुक्तगानम्).

Aniruktagāna is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anirukta and gāna (गान).

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

1) Aniruktagāna (अनिरुक्तगान):—[=a-nirukta-gāna] [from a-nirukta] n. indistinct singing

2) [v.s. ...] humming (of hymns), a particular mode of chanting the Sāma-veda.

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

Aniruktagāna (अनिरुक्तगान):—[tatpurusha compound] n.

(-nam) One of the modes of chanting the hymns of the Sāmaveda. See gāna. E. anirukta and gāna.

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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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