Anyonyavritti, Anyonyavṛtti, Anyonya-vritti: 3 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Anyonyavṛtti can be transliterated into English as Anyonyavrtti or Anyonyavritti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anyonyavṛtti (अन्योन्यवृत्ति).—f. mutual effect of one thing upon another.

Derivable forms: anyonyavṛttiḥ (अन्योन्यवृत्तिः).

Anyonyavṛtti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anyonya and vṛtti (वृत्ति).

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

Anyonyavṛtti (अन्योन्यवृत्ति):—[=anyonya-vṛtti] [from anyonya > anya] m. mutual effect of one upon another.

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

Anyonyavṛtti (अन्योन्यवृत्ति):—[bahuvrihi compound] m.

(-ttiḥ) (In the Sāṅkhya philosophy.) One calling the other into action, reciprocally causing each other to act; a condition of the three guṇa or qualities sattva, rajas and tamas qq. vv.; i. e. ‘one being or acting in the other; as a handsome and well behaved woman is at the same time a source of delight to every one else and one of misery to the other wives of her husband, as well as one of bewilderment to enamoured damsels, in the same manner sattwa calls into existence rajas and tamas &c.’, other similes being used to illustrate that rajas causes the action of sattwa and tamas, and tamas that of sattwa and rajas. (Vāchaspati does not recognise this condition of the three qualities; see anyonyajanana.) E. anyonya and vṛtti.

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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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