The Sanskrit term Ghuṇākṣaranyāya can be transliterated into English as Ghunaksaranyaya or Ghunaksharanyaya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

ghuṇākṣaranyāya (घुणाक्षरन्याय).—Used of the resemblances to things or persons fancyfully trac- ed in mere scrawling or heedless scratching of lines and figures. Accidental coincidence.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Ghuṇākṣaranyāya (घुणाक्षरन्याय):—[=ghuṇākṣara-nyāya] [from ghuṇākṣara > ghuṇa > ghuṇ] m. fortuitous and unexpected manner, happy chance, [Pañcatantra i, 4, 41/42; Daśakumāra-carita v, 36; Prasannarāghava i, 26/27]

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Ghuṇākṣaranyāya (ಘುಣಾಕ್ಷರನ್ಯಾಯ):—[noun] a maxim of an insect boring or cutting a leaf of a book which resemble some letter, to denote occurrence of something by chance.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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