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 dictionaryAnvakṣarasandhi (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 DictionaryAnvakṣarasandhi (अन्वक्षरसन्धि):—[=anv-akṣara-sandhi] m. a kind of Sandhi in the Vedas, [Ṛgveda-prātiśākhya]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnvakṣarasandhi (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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Partial matches: Sandhi.
Full-text: Anuloma.
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