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

Anyonyajanana (अन्योन्यजनन):—[tatpurusha compound] (In the Sāṅkhya philosophy.) 1. n.

(-nam) The producing each other; see the following. 2. m.

(-naḥ) Producing each other; a condition of the three guṇa or qualities sattva, rajas and tamas qq. vv. ‘as a lump of clay produces a jar’; comp. also anyonyamithuna, anyonyābhibhava, anyonyāśraya, anyonyavṛtti. [In the Sāṅkhyakārikā v. 12, where these terms occur ‘anyonyābhibhavāśrayajananamithunavṛttayaśca guṇāḥ’ Vāchaspati combines vṛtti with each of the former and analyses therefore anyonyābhibhavavṛtti &c., while Gauḍapāda takes anyonyavṛtti for a separate condition.] E. anyonya and janana.

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