The Sanskrit term Anuśiṣṭa can be transliterated into English as Anusista or Anushishta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anuśiṣṭa (अनुशिष्ट).—a.

1) educated; स प्रैति क्षेत्रविदानुशिष्टः (sa praiti kṣetravidānuśiṣṭaḥ) Ṛgveda 1. 32.7. Bhāgavata 5.9.4; तस्मात् पुत्रमनुशिष्टं लोक्यमाहुः (tasmāt putramanuśiṣṭaṃ lokyamāhuḥ) Bṛ. Up. 1.5.17.

2) questioned इति तेनानुशिष्टस्तु वाचं मन्दमुदीरयत् (iti tenānuśiṣṭastu vācaṃ mandamudīrayat) Rām.6.3.4.

3) Directed; एष धर्मानुशिष्टो वो यतीनां नियतात्मनाम् (eṣa dharmānuśiṣṭo vo yatīnāṃ niyatātmanām) Manusmṛti 7.86,9.233.

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

Anuśiṣṭa (अनुशिष्ट).—mfn.

(-ṣṭaḥ-ṣṭā-ṣṭaṃ) 1. Taught, revealed. 2. Done conformably to law, &c. 3. Nearly completed. E. anu according to, śiṣṭa taught.

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

Anuśiṣṭa (अनुशिष्ट).—[adjective] taught, bidden, commanded ([person and thing]), inflicted, executed, punished.

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

1) Anuśiṣṭa (अनुशिष्ट):—[=anu-śiṣṭa] [from anu-śās] mfn. taught, revealed

2) [v.s. ...] adjudged, done conformably to law.

3) [v.s. ...] giving false evidence (?), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Anuśiṣṭa (अनुशिष्ट):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f. n.

(-ṣṭaḥ-ṣṭā-ṣṭam) 1) Taught, ordered, laid down as a rule; e. g. yadyapi chandaḥśāstre sānusvārasya gurutvamanuśiṣṭaṃ &c.

2) Ruled, governed.

3) (In Law.) Adjudged, decided, settled, so that the penalty or the punishment may be inflicted; (a lawsuit is tīrita when the cause is properly decided according to evidence but the penalty not yet fixed, and anuśiṣṭa when it is brought up to the point of punishment, the only bar to the carrying out of the sentence then being the appeal). E. śās with anu, kṛt aff. kta.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Anuśiṣṭa (अनुशिष्ट) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Aṇusaṭṭha.

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Anushishta in German

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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: Shishta, Anu.

Ends with: Samanushishta, Shishtanushishta.

Full-text: Anusattha, Anusittha, Samanushishta.

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