Anvaksharasandhi, Anvakṣarasandhi: 3 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Anvakṣarasandhi can be transliterated into English as Anvaksarasandhi or Anvaksharasandhi, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anvakṣarasandhi (अन्वक्षरसन्धि).—A kind of Vedic Sandhi, that of a vowel and consonant.

Derivable forms: anvakṣarasandhiḥ (अन्वक्षरसन्धिः).

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

Anvakṣarasandhi (अन्वक्षरसन्धि):—[=anv-akṣara-sandhi] m. a kind of Sandhi in the Vedas, [Ṛgveda-prātiśākhya]

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

Anvakṣarasandhi (अन्वक्षरसन्धि):—[tatpurusha compound] m.

(-ndhiḥ) (In vaidik Grammar.) A technical name for certain Sandhi or meeting of letters at the end and beginning of words; viz. [a.]) when a final vowel or eṣaḥ, syaḥ or saḥ are followed by a consonant (the Visarga of these three words then being dropped); see anuloma; [b.]) when a final consonant is followed by an initial vowel; see pratiloma; [c.]) when a final Visarga is followed by a consonant called ūṣman q. v. which itself is followed by a surd or hard consonant (the preceding Visarga then being dropped, e. g. samudrā sthaḥ, instead of samudrāḥ sthaḥ); see vaktra; [d.]) when the particle īm is followed by the words garbham, gāvaḥ, vatsam, mṛjanti, pṛcyate, sakhāyaḥ, vivyāca, punar, riṇanti and ratham (the final m of īm then being dropped). E. anu-akṣara and sandhi.

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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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