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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anvarthagrahaṇa (अन्वर्थग्रहण).—literal acceptation of the meaning of a word (opp. to rūḍha or conventional).

Derivable forms: anvarthagrahaṇam (अन्वर्थग्रहणम्).

Anvarthagrahaṇa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anvartha and grahaṇa (ग्रहण).

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

Anvarthagrahaṇa (अन्वर्थग्रहण):—[=anv-artha-grahaṇa] [from anv-artha] n. the literal acceptation of the meaning of a word (as opposed to the conventional).

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

Anvarthagrahaṇa (अन्वर्थग्रहण):—[tatpurusha compound] n.

(-ṇam) Taking or understanding a word in its literal or etymological (not in its conventional or technical) sense; e. g. the word bahuvacane in Pāṇini Viii. 2. 81, where it is not be taken in the technical sense ‘plural’, but in the sense bahūnāmarthānāṃ vacane, as otherwise the form amī would not result from the rule. E. anvartha (Avyayībh.) and grahaṇa.

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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: Grahana, Anvartha.

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