aneka अनेक – many; numerous

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aneka ·a. not one; many or much (also pl.), manifold.

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aneka an-eka, as, ā, am, not one, many, much; separated.

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aneka (3. a + eka) adj. f. ā nicht ein, d. i. mehr als ein P. 1,1,55. anekapitṛkāṇām YĀJÑ. 2,120. yatrānekamāntaryaṃ saṃbhavati KĀŚ._zu_P. 1,1,50. viele: varṇānanekān ŚVETĀŚV. UP. 4,1. ŚVETĀŚV. UP. 4,14. anekāni sahasrāṇi M. 5,159. M. 9,261. BHAG. 11,24. R. 2,9,47. R. 2,94,15. R. 5,20,18. VIŚV. 10,30. HIT. Pr. 9. HIT. Pr. 10,19. mannichfach: ánekakāma adj. ŚAT. BR. 4,6,9,23. tathātmai ko 'pyanekaśca YĀJÑ. 3,144. Am Anf. eines comp. vor einem Thätigkeitsbegriff in der Bedeutung eines adv.; vgl. anekaja, anekapa, anekavijayin PAÑCAT. III, 8.

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aneka m. sg. Viele Spr. 2294. anekāḥ v. l.

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aneka Adj. mehr als Einer, vielfach: Pl. mehrere, verschiedene, viele.

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aneka , Compar. ˚tara VĀSAV. 220,2. [Nachtrag, Band 5]

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aneka I. 5. [Nachtrag, Band 7]

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aneka a. 1 Not one; more than one, many; anekapitṛkāṇāṃ tu pitṛto bhāgakalpanā Y. 2. 120, Ki. 1. 16; several, various; tathātmaiko'pyanekaśca Y. 3. 144. 2 Separated; divided; oft. in comp.; ˚ākāra having many shapes or forms; diverse, multiform; ˚kālaṃ-vāraṃ several times, many a time and oft; ˚bhārya having more wives than one. Comp. — akṣara, — ac a. having more than one vowel or syllable; polysyllabic. — agra a. 1 engaged in several pursuits. 2 not concentrated or fixed on one object. — aṃta a. 1 [na. ba.] not alone so as to exclude all others, uncertain, doubtful, variable; syādityavyayamanekāṃtavācakaṃ 2 = anaikāṃtika q. v. — (taḥ) 1 unsettled condition, absence of permanence. 2 uncertainty, doubtfulness. 3 an unessential part, as the several anubandhas. ˚vādaḥ scepticism. ˚vādin m. a sceptic, a Jaina or an Arhat of the Jainas. — artha a. 1 having many (more than one) meanings, homonymous; as the words go, amṛta, akṣa &c.; anekārthasya śabdasya K. P. 2. 2 having the sense of the word aneka. 3 having many objects or purposes. — (rthaḥ) multiplicity of objects, topics &c. — al a. having more than one al (letter) P. I. 1. 55. — āśraya, -āśrita a. (in Vaiś. phil.) dwelling or abiding in more than one (such as saṃyoga, sāmānya); ete'nekāśritā guṇāḥ Bhāṣā P.; dependence upon more than one. — kṛt m. ‘doing much’, N. of Śiva. — guṇa a. of many kinds, manifold, diverse; vigaṇayya kāraṇamanekaguṇaṃ Ki. 6. 37. — guptaḥ N. of a king; ˚arcitapādapaṃkajaḥ K. 3. — gotra a. belonging to two families (such as a boy when adopted), i. e. that of his own, and that of his adoptive, father. — cara a. gregarious. — citta a. not of one mind, fickle-minded; ˚maṃtraḥ not following the counsels of ([Page 0087-a]) one; H. 4. 31. — ja a. born more than once. — (jaḥ) a bird (garbhāṃḍābhyāṃ jātatvāt). — paḥ an elephant (so called because he drinks with his trunk and mouth); cf. dvipa; vanyetarānekapadarśanena R. 5. 47; Śi. 5. 35, Śi. 12. 75. — mukha a. (khī f.) a. 1 having many faces, many-faced. 2 scattered, dispersed, going in various directions, taking to various ways; (balāni) jagāhire' nekamukhāni mārgān Bk. 2. 54. — mūrtiḥ ‘having many forms’, N. of Viṣṇu who assumed various forms to deliver the earth from calamities. — yuddhavijayin, -vijayin a. victorious in many battles; Pt. 3. 9, Pt. 3. 11. — rūpa a. 1 of various forms, multiform. 2 of various kinds or sorts. 3 fickle, changeable, of a varying nature; veśyāṃganeva nṛpanītiranekarūpā Pt. 1. 425. — (paḥ) epithet of the Supreme Being. — locanaḥ N. of Śiva; also of Indra, and of the Supreme Being, he being said to be sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt &c. — vacanaṃ the plural number; dual also. — varṇa a. involving more than one (unknown) quantity (the unknown quantities x. y. z. &c. being represented in Sanskrit by colours nīla, kāla &c.); ˚samīkaraṇaṃ simultaneous equation; ˚guṇanaṃ, ˚vyavakalanaṃ, ˚hāraḥ multiplication, subtraction or division of unknown quantities. — vidha a. various, different. — śapha a. cloven-hoofed. — śabda a. synonymous. — sādhāraṇa a. common to many, the common property of many persons Dk. 83.

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aneka mehrfach; Pl mehrere. Abstr. ˚tva n.

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aneka aneka a. (eka) non un; multiple; divers; nombreux. anekaja a. m à m. né plus d'une fois; oiseau. anekadhā adv. (sfx. dhā) en plusieurs parties; en plusieurs fois; dans sa diversité. anekadharmakathā f. (dharma) Bd. exposition variée de la Loi. anekapa m. (pā) m à m. qui boit en plusieurs fois, c-à-d. l'éléphant. anekaśas adv. plusieurs fois; beaucoup. anekibhavat ppr. (bhū) non contractées, conservant leurs deux natures, [en parlant de syllabes contiguës] tg.