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Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

Source: Shodhganga: Bhismacaritam a critical study

Anunāyaka (अनुनायक) refers to a “subsidiary hero” in a Mahākāvya (‘epic poem’).—Generally, a hero has his counter-part, who is known as the subsidiary hero or the anunāyaka. The leaders of the Episode (patākā) or the Incident (prakarī) are generally such characters. They are the principal supplementary to the hero in achieving his end. An anunāyaka is therefore a character whose part is comparatively much less important than that of the hero.

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Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anunāyaka (अनुनायक).—a. Submissive, humble, supplicating.

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

Anunāyaka (अनुनायक):—[=anu-nāyaka] [from anu-nī] mf(ikā)n. submissive, humble.

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Anunāyaka (ಅನುನಾಯಕ):—[noun] a follower, an associate of the hero or main character (in a drama, literary work, etc.); a second hero.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Nayaka, Anu.

Starts with: Anunayaka-paddhati, Anunayaka-unnanse.

Full-text: Anunayaka-paddhati, Anunayaka-unnanse, Nayaka.

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Dramaturgy in the Venisamhara (by Debi Prasad Namasudra)

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