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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anupātaka (अनुपातक).—[pātakaṃ brahmahatyādi tatsadṛśam] A heinous crime such as theft, murder, adultery &c. 35 such sins are enumerated in Viṣṇusmṛti; Manu mentions 3 kinds; See 11.54-58.

Derivable forms: anupātakam (अनुपातकम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anupātaka (अनुपातक).—n.

(-kaṃ) A heinous crime, as, falsehood, fraud, theft, adultery, &c. anu, and pātaka crime.

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

Anupātaka (अनुपातक):—[=anu-pātaka] [from anu-pāta] n. a crime similar to a mahāpātaka q.v. (falsehood, fraud, theft, adultery, etc.)

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

Anupātaka (अनुपातक):—[tatpurusha compound] n.

(-kam) A heinous offence, one similar to the four great crimes (mahāpātaka) which are: [a.]) Causing the death of a Brāhmaṇa (directly or indirectly). [b.]) Drinking spirits. [c.]) Stealing (acc. to the comm. ‘gold from a Brāhmaṇa’). [d.]) Committing incest with the wife of a father, natural or spiritual. The anupātaka mentioned by Manu are the following: 1. False boasting of superiority (as pretending to be a Brāhmaṇa or conversant with the four Vedas, if one is not); 2. Malignant report, before a king, of crimes (comm.: punishable by death)—omitted by Yājnavalkya—; 3. Falsely accusing a spiritual preceptor; 4. Forgetting the Veda; 5. Showing contempt of the Veda (comm.: by resorting to heretical writings); 6. Giving false evidence (omitted by Yājnav.); 7. Killing a friend (comm.: not a Brāhmaṇa, this case being the first mahāpātaka); 8. (Knowingly) eating things prohibited (i. e. food fit only for a Śūdra, as garlick &c.) or unfit to be tasted (as excrements &c.); [9. (According to Yājnavalkya) Kissing a woman while in menstruation; 10. (Acc. to Yājn.) Deceitfulness (i. e. saying one thing and doing another)]; 11. Appropriating a deposit (comm.: not the gold of a Brāhmaṇa (this case being the third mahāpātaka) or acc. to another author. a deposit not of gold, if it belongs to a Brāhmaṇa); 12—17. Stealing a man, a horse, silver, a piece of land, a diamond or a gem [acc. to Yājnavalkya, 12—17. a horse, a gem, a man, a woman, a piece of land, and a cow]; 18—22. Sexual intercourse with one’s own sister, with little girls before they have attained to puberty, with women of the lowest tribe (comm.: a Chāṇdālī), with the wives of a friend or of a son [to which Yājnavalkya adds: 23—30. with a woman of the same gotra or family, the sister of a father or mother, the wife of a maternal uncle, the wife of one’s father, the daughter or wife of a spiritual teacher or one’s own daughter; Nārada adds moreover: 31—40. with a mother in law, the wife of a paternal uncle or of a pupil, the friend of a sister, one who comes for protection, the wife of one who carries on the government of the country—comm.: if he is not a Kshatriya—, a nurse, a female mendicant, a female devotee and a woman of the Brāhmaṇa class.]— Similar to the first Mahāpātaka are the Anupātakas, acc. to Manu, 1—3, acc. to Yājnavalkya, 3—5 and 7. Similar to the second Mahāpātaka are the Anup., acc. to Manu, 4—8; acc. to Yājnav., 1. 8. 9. 10. Similar to the third Mahāp. are the Anup., acc. to Manu and Yājnav., 11—17. Similar to the fourth Mahāp. are, according to Manu, the Anupāt. 18—22, acc. to Yājnav. (and Nārada, Yama &c.), 18-40. E. anu and pātaka.

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

Anupātaka (अनुपातक):—[anu-pātaka] (kaṃ) 1. n. Great sin.

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