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

Anuvādyatva (अनुवाद्यत्व):—[=anu-vādya-tva] [from anu-vādya > anu-vad] n. the state of requiring to be explained by an anuvāda.

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

Anuvādyatva (अनुवाद्यत्व):—n.

(-tvam) The quality of being the subject or the basis of an anuvāda (q. v.), the being the cause of explanatory injunctions, accessory rites &c. (compare anuvāda), one of the three properties of the phala or ultimate object of a sacrificial act which is instrumental in fulfilling the wishes of the agent. (For the two other properties of the phala see uddeśyatva and mukhyatva or pradhānatva, and for those of the sacrificial act upādeyatva (the correlate of anuvādyatva), vidheyatva (the correlate of uddeśyatva) and guṇatva (the correlate of mukhyatva). E. anuvādya, taddh. aff. tva.

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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: Tva, Anuvadya.

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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)

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