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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Annāyu (अन्नायु).—(annāyu) consisting of, living by, food; desirous of food (annabandhanaḥ, annajīvanaḥ).

Derivable forms: annāyuḥ (अन्नायुः).

Annāyu is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anna and āyu (आयु).

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

Annāyu (अन्नायु):—[from anna] m. (coined for the etymology of vāyu), ‘living by food, desirous of food’ [Aitareya-upaniṣad]

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

Annāyu (अन्नायु):—m.

(-yuḥ) I. [tatpurusha compound] Seizing food (see anna 2. 2.); or Ii. [bahuvrihi compound] Living through food (see anna 2. 2.); an epithet of the vital air apāna q. v., in the Aitareya Upanishad, because it alone was capable to seize the primitive food, created from the waters by the Supreme Soul, after speech, the vital air prāṇa q. v., eye, ear, skin (i. e. touch), manas and the generative organ were unable to take possession of, and thus of preserving, life through it. In the passage alluded to there is a quibble on the word āyu, according to its having the sense of ‘obtaining’ from the corresponding meaning of the rad. ī, vī, or the sense of āyus ‘life’; as the word occurs in the nomin. annāyuḥ, it may, as a [bahuvrihi compound], represent also the form annāyus. The radical ī having the same meaning as vī and probably being identical with it in origin, the words vayat and vāyu ‘air or taking’, in the same passage, complete the double sense of the pun: ‘tad (i. e. annaṃ) apānenājighṛkṣattadā vayat . sa eṣonnasya graho (comm. = annagrāhakaḥ) yadvāyurannāyurvā eṣa yadvāyuḥ; comm.: yo vāyurannāyurannabandhanonnajīvano vai prasiddhaṃ sa eṣa yo vāyuḥ. E. anna and āyu.

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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: Anna, Ayu.

Starts with: Annayus.

Full-text: Annayus, Annagrahaka, Apana.

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