Ratrisatranyaya, Rātrisatranyāya, Ratri-satranyaya, Rātrīsatranyāya: 1 definition

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[«previous next»] — Ratrisatranyaya in Sanskrit glossary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Rātrisatranyāya (रात्रिसत्रन्याय) or Rātrīsatranyāya (रात्रीसत्रन्याय).—the rule according to which an act, for which no fruit is stated directly in the injunctive text, should be held as yielding the result spoken of in the अर्थवाद (arthavāda) text connected with it. This rule is discussed and established by Jaimini and Śabara in MS.4.3.17-19.

Derivable forms: rātrisatranyāyaḥ (रात्रिसत्रन्यायः), rātrīsatranyāyaḥ (रात्रीसत्रन्यायः).

Rātrisatranyāya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms rātri and satranyāya (सत्रन्याय).

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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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