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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: JatLand: List of Mahabharata people and places

Anuvakra (अनुवक्र) is a name mentioned in the Mahābhārata (cf. IX.44.36) and represents one of the many proper names used for people and places. Note: The Mahābhārata (mentioning Anuvakra) is a Sanskrit epic poem consisting of 100,000 ślokas (metrical verses) and is over 2000 years old.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by Varahamihira

Anuvakra (अनुवक्र) refers to the “reretrograde motions” (of heavenly bodies), according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 2), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “A true Astrologer is also one who has thoroughly mastered the Science of Saṃhitā. It treats of the motions of the sun and planets; of their size, color, rays, brilliancy and shape and changes in the same of their disappearance and re-appearance; of their courses and deviations therefrom; of their retrograde and reretrograde motions [i.e., anuvakra]; of their conjunction with the stars and of their places among the stars and the like”.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anuvakra (अनुवक्र).—a. [अनुक्रमेण वक्रः (anukrameṇa vakraḥ) Very crooked; somewhat crooked or oblique; °ग (ga) moving somewhat obliquely or retrogressively (said of planets).

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

Anuvakra (अनुवक्र):—[=anu-vakra] mfn. somewhat crooked or oblique.

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

Anuvakra (अनुवक्र):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f. n.

(-kraḥ-krā-kram) Somewhat oblique (another reading of this word is ativakra q. v.); applied esp. to the diurnal motion of a planet in its orbit (see gati), of which motions eight are enumerated, subdivided again into two classes; the anuvakragati belongs to that class of motions which is called vakra. E. anu and vakra.

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

Anuvakra (अनुवक्र) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Aṇuvaṃka.

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Anuvakra 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Vakra, Anu.

Starts with: Anuvakraga.

Full-text: Anuvakraga, Anuvamka, Sanuvakraga.

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