Anantara, Anamtara, Ananta: 25 definitions
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In Hinduism
Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)
: Wikisource: A dictionary of Sanskrit grammarAnantara (अनन्तर).�(l) immediate, contiguous अव्यवहित (avyavahita). cf. हलोनन्तराः संयोगः (halonanta� ṃyDz�) P.1. 1.7, also गतिरनन्तरः (پԲԳٲ�) P. VI.2.49: cf. अनन्तर� संयोगः (anantara� ṃyDz�) V. Pr.I.48. ; (2) nearest, as compared with others of the same type; cf. अथवा अनन्तर� या प्राप्ति� सा प्रतिषिध्यते (athav ananta y ppti� s pratiṣidhyate) M.Bh. on I.1.43; cf. Pari. Śek. अनन्तरस्� विधिर्वा भवति प्रतिषेध� वा (anantarasya vidhirv bhavati pratiṣedho v), which means that a prescriptive or prohibitive rule applies to the nearest and not to the distant one.Par.Śek. 61,Cn. Par.30.

Vyakarana (व्याकर�, vykaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.
Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)
: SOAS University of London: Protective Rites in the Netra TantraAnantara (अनन्तर) refers to “immediately after,�, according to the Netratantra of Kṣemaja: a Śaiva text from the 9th century in which Śiva (Bhairava) teaches Prvatī topics such as metaphysics, cosmology, and soteriology.—Accordingly, [verse 11.1-24ab, while describing the appearance and worship of Tumburu]—“[...] [He worships] Deva as Tumburu in the middle of an eight petaled lotus, in the ṇḍ, [starting] in the East, O Devī. [...] He installs Gyatrī and Svitrī to the left and the right. [The Sdhaka] installs a hook above and immediately after, below (anantara�� vinyasyet tad anantaram). All this is always to be joined with the root mantra. [...]�.

Shaiva (शै�, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.
Pancaratra (worship of Nyaṇa)
: archive.org: Catalogue of Pancaratra Agama TextsAnantara (अनन्तर) refers to “that which is to be done after certain rites�, as discussed in chapter 19 of the վṣṇܲṃh: a Sanskrit text written in 2600 verses which covers typical Pñcatra topics through a narrative dialogue between Aupagyana and Siddha Sumati.—Description of the chapter [پṣṭ-ԲԳٲ-]: Among the concluding concerns of the پṣṭ-rites are the installation of various other powers around the temple-precincts. [...]

Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pñcatra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and DoctrinesProximity (anantara), is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
Theravda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
: academia.edu: The Structure and Meanings of the Heruka MaṇḍalaAnantara (अनन्तर) is the name of a Vīra (hero) who, together with the Ḍkinī named Anantarī forms one of the 36 pairs situated in the Cittacakra, according to the 10th century Ḍkṇa chapter 15. Accordingly, the cittacakra refers to one of the three divisions of the Ծṇa-ṭa (‘emanation layer�), situated in the Herukaṇḍ. The 36 pairs of Ḍkinīs and Vīras [viz., Anantara] are black in color; they each have one face and four arms; they hold a skull bowl, a skull staff, a small drum, and a knife.

Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (Բ) are collected indepently.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
: The University of Sydney: A study of the Twelve ReflectionsAnantara (अनन्तर) refers to “continuously�, according to the 11th century Jñnrṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “This very same [one], whose mind is delighted with the prosperity of heaven, alone enjoys the divine nectar of pleasure in heaven continuously produced by desire (ṃk貹-ԲԳٲ-ܳٱ貹ԲԲ). For this embodied soul there is not another companion in union and in separation, in birth or in death and at the time of pleasure and pain�.

Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance�) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryanantara : (adj.) next; adjoining; immediately following.
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) anantara (အနန္တ�) [(ti) (တ�)]�
[na+antara]
�+အĔĹĐû
2) ananta (အနန္တရ�) [(bya) (ဗ�)]�
[anta sattamīanitea so ni. (.115va. nīti,sutta,nh-312-).]
[အန္တရာကဲ့သို� သတ္တမီအနက်၌ ဖြစ်သေ� နိပါတ်။ (ဓာန်။၁၁၅ဝ။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ၊နှ�-၃၁�-တို့လည်းကြည့�)။]
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)1) anantara�
(Burmese text): (�) အခြာ� မရှိသော။ (�) (�) အခြာ� မရှိသေ�-တရာ�-ကာလ၊ အခြားမရှိခြင်း။ (�) အနန္တ�-ပစ္စည်း။ အနန္တရပစ္စ�-လည်းကြည့်။ (�) အတွင်းမဟုတ်သော။ (�) အထူးမရှိသော၊ အတူတူဖြစ်သော။ (�) ဘေးရန�-အန္တရာယ�-မရှိသော။ (�) စုတိ၏ အခြားမဲ့၌ ဖြစ်သေ� အကျိုး။ အနန္တရကရဏသီ�-ကြည့်။ (�) အနန္တရိယကံ။ အနန္တရာပယုတ္�-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Not otherwise. (2) Not otherwise - lawful - period, absence of otherwise. (3) Infinite objects. Also refer to infinite materials. (4) Not within. (5) Not special, identical. (6) No danger or risk. (7) Benefits that arise from absence of aggregate. Refer to infinite ethical conduct. (8) Infinite destiny. Refer to infinite conditions.
2) ananta�
(Burmese text): (�)အခြားမဲ့၌� အခြားမဲ့မှ။ (�) အခြားမရှိ၊ တဆက်တည်း။ (�) အနန္တရိယကံ။ အနန္တရာပယုတ္�-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) In particular, from elsewhere. (2) There is nothing else, a single instance. (3) Infinite fortune. Infinite fortune - observe.

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryanantara (अनंत�).—ad Afterwards, then. 2 prep After.
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anantara (अनंत�).—a (S a & antara) Following without interval; closely consecutive.
: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishanantara (अनंत�).�ad Then. prep After. a Closely consecutive.
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
: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर).�a. [nsti antara� vyavadhna�, madhya�; ś� &c. yasya]
1) Having no interior or interior space, limitless; तदेतत् ब्रह्म अपूर्वमनन्तर� अवाह्यम् (tadetat brahma apūrvamanantara� avhyam) Br. Up.2.5.19.
2) Having no interval or interstice or pause (of space or time); compact, close; हलोऽनन्तरा� संयोगः (halo'nanta� ṃyDz�) P.I.1.7, See संयो� (ṃyDz).
3) (a) Contiguous, neighbouring, adjoining; Rm.4.21. 14; अनयत� प्रभुशक्तिसंपद� वशमेको नृपतीननन्तरान� (anayat prabhuśaktisaṃpad vaśameko nṛpatīnanantan) R.8.19; भारतवर्ष�- दुत्तरेण अनन्तर� किंपुरुषनाम्नि वर्ष� (bhratavarṣ�- duttareṇa anantare kiṃpuruṣanmni varṣe) K.136; immediately adjoining; Kitrjunīya 2.53. R.7.21; not distant from (with abl.); आत्मनोऽनन्तरममात्यपद� ग्राहितः (tmano'nantaramamtyapada� ghita�) Mu.4; ब्रह्मावर्तादनन्तर� (屹岹ԲԳٲ�) Manusmṛti 2.19 (Kull. anantara� kiṃcidūna�); अरेः अनन्तर� मित्रम� (are� anantara� mitram) 7.158; or in comp.; विषयानन्तर� राजा शत्रुः (viṣaynantaro j śatru�) Ak. who is an immediate neighbour.
4) Immediately before or after; Rm.4. 29.31. तदिद� क्रियतामनन्तरं भवता बन्धुजनप्रयोजनम् (tadida� kriyatmanantara� bhavat bandhujanaprayojanam) Kumrasambhava 4.32 soon after, just afterwards; अनन्तरोदीरितलक्ष्मभाज� पादौ यदीयावुपजातयस्ताः (anantarodīritalakṣmabhjau pdau yadīyvupajtayast�) Chnd. M. having characteristics mentioned just before.
5) Following, coming close upon (in comp.); शङ्खस्वनानन्तरपुष्पवृष्ट� (śṅkԲԳٲṣpṛṣṭi) Kumrasambhava 1.23;2.53; °कर- णीयम� (kara- ṇīyam) Ś.4 the next duty, what should be done next.
6) Belonging to the caste immediately following; पुत्रा येऽनन्तरस्त्रीजा� (put ye'nantarastrīj�) Manusmṛti 1.14.
7) Uninterrupted, unbroken, continuous. सुखदुःखावृते लोके नेहास्त्येकमनन्तरम� (sukhaduḥkhvṛte loke nehstyekamanantaram) Mahbhrata (Bombay) 12.153. 89.
8) Straight, direct (ṣt). अथवाऽनन्तरकृतं किंचिदेव निदर्शनम� (athav'nantarakṛta� kiṃcideva nidarśanam) Mahbhrata (Bombay) 12.35.9.
-ram [na. ta.]
1) Contiguity, proximity; अनन्तरविहिते चास्यासन� (anantaravihite csysane) K.93.
2) Brahman, the supreme soul (as being of one entire essence).
-ram ind. [Strictly it is acc. of time kltyantaṃyDz�; nsti antara� yath sy tath]
1) Immediately after, afterwards.
2) (with a prepositional force) After (with abl.); पुराणपत्त्रापग- मादनन्तरम् (puṇapattpaga- mdanantaram) R.3.7; त्यागाच्छान्तिरनन्तरम् (ٲ岵峦ԳپԲԳٲ) Bhagavadgīt (Bombay) 12.12; गोदानविध�- रनन्तरम् (godnavidhe- ranantaram) R.3.33,36.;2.71; स्वामिनोऽनन्तर� भृत्या� (svmino'nantara� bhṛty�) ʲñٲԳٰ (Bombay) 1; rarely with gen.; अङ्गदं चाधिरूढस्त� लक्ष्मणोऽनन्तर� मम (aṅgada� cdhirūḍhastu lakṣmaṇo'nantara� mama) Rm.; or in comp.; घनोदया� प्राक् तदनन्तरं पय� (ghanoday� pk tadanantara� paya�) Ś7.3.; R.4. 2.; Manusmṛti 3.252, Y.2.41; वचनानन्तरमेव (ԲԳٲ𱹲) K.78 immediately after those words.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर).—mfn.
(-�--�) 1. Next, immediately following. 2. Next of kin or in succession. 3. Close, compact. n.
(-�) Extreme propinquity E. an neg. and antara between; having nothing intermediate.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर).—[an-antara], I. adj., f. . 1. Having nothing intermediate, [Բśٰ] 2, 19. 2. Immediately bordering, next, [Nala] 22, 16. 3. Immediately following, Bhṣp. 123. 4. Of an immediately following caste, [Բśٰ] 10, 14. 5. Allowing no delay, necessary,
Anantara (अनन्तर).—[adjective] having nothing within or between, immediately adjoing or following (in time and space), next, [especially] in caste. anantaram [adverb] close by; thereupon, at once, soon after ([genetive], [ablative], or —�).
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Anantara (अनन्तर):—[=an-antara] mf()n. having no interior
2) [v.s. ...] having no interstice or interval or pause
3) [v.s. ...] uninterrupted, unbroken
4) [v.s. ...] continuous
5) [v.s. ...] immediately adjoining, contiguous
6) [v.s. ...] next of kin, etc.
7) [v.s. ...] compact, close
8) [v.s. ...] m. a neighbouring rival, a rival neighbour
9) [v.s. ...] n. contiguousness
10) [v.s. ...] n. Brahma or the supreme soul (as being of one entire essence)
11) [=an-antara] m. (also) the next (younger) brother after ([ablative]), [Mahbhrata]
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर):—[bahuvrihi compound] m. f. n.
(-ra�--ram) 1) Having nothing in-termediate, having no interval or defect, uninterrupted, entire; in the Upanishads also as an epithet of Brahman (n.) or the supreme soul, of which it is said that it has nothing before it nor after it, nor between ‘before� and ‘after� it nor besides it, or that it exists without interruption or defect, entire.
2) Next, immediately following or preceding.
3) Next of kin, in succession, in caste.
4) Close, compact.—anantaram immediately, afterwards; it is followed or preceded sometimes by a noun depending upon it in the ablative or genitive. E. a priv. and anantara.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर):—[ana+ntara] (�) 1. n. Extreme propinquity. a. Near, next. adv. After.
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Anantara (अनन्तर) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: ṇaṃt.
[Sanskrit to German]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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.
Hindi dictionary
: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryAnaṃtara (अनंत�) [Also spelled anantar]:�(ind) after, afterwards; in the wake of.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryṇaṃt (अणंत�) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Anantara.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusAnaṃtara (ಅನಂತ�):�
1) [adjective] having no interior.
2) [adjective] having no interval; uninterrupted.
3) [adjective] without any difference; identical.
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Anaṃtara (ಅನಂತ�):—[adverb] at a later time; subsequently; afterwards.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
: unoes: Nepali-English DictionaryAnantara (अनन्तर):—adj. 1. not separated; 2. adjacent; 3. unbroken; 4. continuous;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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