Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

anuttara अनुत्तर – unsurpassed; highest

adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Dictionary sources

AYI dictionary adjective

unsurpassed; highest

Derived from

  1. a अ previx — negative prefix a-; not; without
  2. uttara उत्तर adjective — following; later; subsequent; upper; higher; further
Monier-Williams 1872 adjective

Original text · English · adjective

anuttara an-uttara, as, ā, am, chief, principal; best, excellent; without a reply, unable to answer, silent; fixed, firm; low, inferior, base; south, southern; (am), n. a reply which is coherent or evasive and therefore held to be no answer; (as), m. a class of gods among the Jainas.

Petersburger 1855 adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

anuttara (3. a + uttara) 1〉 adj. a〉 der untere AK. 3,4,192. — b〉 südlich ibid. — c〉 niedrig, schlecht ibid. — d〉 fest (sthira) DHARAṆĪ_im_ŚKDR. — e〉 ohne Höheres, der vorzüglichste AK. TRIK. 3,3,327. H. 1438. H. an. 4,234. MED. r. 243. — f〉 ohne Antwort bleibend, der Antwort nicht werth, = niruttara H. an. = pratijalpavivarjita MED. = avācya TRIK. = yadvada H. 347. — 2〉 m. pl. eine Klasse von Göttern, eine Unterabtheilung der Kalpātīta H. 94. — 3〉 n. das Nichtantworten: bhavatyavajñā ca bhavatyanuttarāt NAIṢ._im_ŚKDR.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

anuttara 1〉f〉 keine Antwort habend so v. a. wogegen man Nichts erwiedern kann: vākya MBH. 2,25. so v. a. nicht antwortend, Nichts zu erwiedern habend MBH. 3,17241. kṣaṇamāsīdanuttaraḥ KATHĀS. 26,189.

Böhtlingk 1879 adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · adjective · substantive neuter

1. anuttara — 1〉 *Adj. — a〉 der untere. — b〉 südlich. — c〉 niedrig, schlecht. — 2〉 n. das Nichtantworten.

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine

2. anuttara — 1〉 Adj. — a〉 *ohne Höheres, der vorzüglichste. — b〉 *fest. — c〉 keine Antwort gebend. — d〉 wogegen man Nichts erwiedern kann. — 2〉 *m. Pl. eine best. Klasse von Göttern bei den Jaina.

Original text · German · substantive masculine

anuttara m. ein best. Samādhi KĀRAṆḌ. 52,3. [Nachtrag, Band 2]

Original text · German · substantive neuter

1. anuttara n. eine mangelhafte Antwort in einem Process KĀTY. in MIT. 16. Nom. abstr. ˚tva n. ebend. [Nachtrag, Band 1]

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2. anuttara 1〉e〉 mit keiner Stipulation verbunden NĀR. 1,5. [Nachtrag, Band 1]

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2. anuttara 1〉 Adj. (f. ā) a〉 VAJRACCH. 24,2. [Nachtrag, Band 3]

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anuttara I. 1. 2. 3. [Nachtrag, Band 7]

Apte 1890 adjective · substantive neuter

Original text · English · adjective · substantive neuter

anuttara a. [nāsti uttaro yasmāt] 1 Principal, chief. 2 Best, excellent; anuttarāṇi vilasitāni Dk. 162 unsurpassed. 3 [nāsti uttaraṃ yasya] Without a reply, silent, unable to answer; bhavatyavajñā ca bhavatyanuttarāt Naiṣadha. 4 Fixed, firm (na uttarati calati). 5 Low, inferior, base, mean. 6 Southern. — raṃ [na. ta.] No reply, a reply which, being evasive, ([Page 0071-a]) is considered to be no reply. — rāḥ (pl.) A class of gods among Jainas (˚upapātika). — rā The south.

Burnouf 1866 adjective

Original text · French · adjective

anuttara anuttara a. comp. du précédent; mms. Sans réplique, incapable de répondre. Qui n'est pas plus haut que qqc., bas, inférieur; méridional.

Occurrences in source texts (2)

MAN 1 occurrence
Rudra-Kṣetra-Mantra 1 occurrence

Direct occurrences

  • MAN RK 3 Segment 7

    Attested form: anuttara Grammar of the segment: karmadhāraya-compound

VBT 1 occurrence
VBT 32–35: Emptiness and Nāḍī 1 occurrence

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