Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. [na. ba.] 1 With- out a hymn, not containing a verse from the Ṛgveda; anṛk sāma P. V. 4. 74 Sk.
2 [nāsti ṛk abhyastatayā ya- sya ac samāsaḥ] Not conversant with, not studying, the Ṛgveda; one not invested with the sacred thread and hence not yet entitled to study the Vedas (as a boy); yathā cājñe'pha- laṃ dānaṃ tathā vipro'nṛco'phalaḥ Ms. 2. 158; [Page0086-b+ 57] anṛco māṇavakaḥ Mugdha. (In this case the form...
