Antaratantaratantarata, Antaratāntaratāntaratā: 1 definition

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

Antaratāntaratāntaratā (अन्तरतान्तरतान्तरता):—f.

(-tā) [A specimen of the linguistic taste displayed in the Nalodaya; this word is analyzed by the comm. either as:]

1) A condition in which the essence(?) of amorous pleasure is not rank in the heart (when tānta seems to have been mistaken for tata, as ‘not languid’ might be expected instead of atānta = ‘avistīrṇa’, not rank, not spread), or

2) Dwandwa. A woman who has obtained no pleasure in her heart and wanders in her mind (to her husband i. e. thinks of him, when equally atānta is made to represent atata). E.

1) antar-atānta-rata-antara, taddh. aff. tā;

2) antar-atānta-rata, fem. aff. ṭāp and antar-ata (from at to go), fem. aff. ṭāp.

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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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