Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1 P. (ºstubh) To praise after, follow in praising.
Dictionary meanings for anuṣṭubh from Apte and Monier-Williams.
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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1 P. (ºstubh) To praise after, follow in praising.
Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
f. [anu niraṃtaraṃ stubhyate'nayā anuṣṭup vāk] 1 Following in praise; speech.
2 Sarasvatī.
3 N. of a class of metres consisting of four Pādas of 8 syllables each, the whole stanza consisting of 32 syllables (so called because it follows with its praise i. e. anuṣṭobhati the gāyatrī, which has 3 Pādas), anuṣṭobhanādanuṣṭup. In later metrical systems it stands as a gen- eral name for all metres which have 8...
Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary
(stubh) to praise after, to follow in praising Nir. 005315 40,1 7473 f. p (nom. ṣṭ/uk TS.) following in praise or invocation 40,1 7474 f. a kind of metre consisting of four Pa1das pAda s or quarter-verses of eight syllables each (according to the DaivBr., quoted in Nir. vii, 12, so called because it anuṣṭobhati i.e. follows with its praise the Ga1yatri1 gāyatrī, which consists of three... f. (in later metrical...
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