Anishtapadana, Aniṣṭāpādana, Anishta-apadana: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Aniṣṭāpādana can be transliterated into English as Anistapadana or Anishtapadana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAniṣṭāpādana (अनिष्टापादन).—getting what is not desired, an undesired occurrence.
Derivable forms: aniṣṭāpādanam (अनिष्टापादनम्).
Aniṣṭāpādana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms aniṣṭa and āpādana (आपादन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAniṣṭāpādana (अनिष्टापादन):—[=an-iṣṭāpādana] [from an-iṣṭa] n. not obtaining what is desire or ([from] aniṣṭa and āpādana) obtaining what is not desired.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAniṣṭāpādana (अनिष्टापादन):—[tatpurusha compound] n.
(-nam) 1. Obtaining or getting what is not desirable. See prāptisama. E. aniṣṭa and āpādana. 2. Not obtaining what is desirable. See aprāptisama. E. a neg. and iṣṭa-āpādana.
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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