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    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 111, col. 1.
    Ā-kāṅkṣa, as, ā, am, desiring, wishing; (in

    gram.) requiring a word or words to complete the

    sense; (ā), f. desire, wish; (in gram.) the requiring

    of a word or period for the completion of the sense;

    looking at or towards; purpose, intention; enquiry,

    asking; the significancy of a word.

    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 57.
    ākāṅkṣa a. desiring, wanting (esp. a word to complete the sense); f. ā wish, desire, want (of a word to complete the sense).

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 126, col. 3.
    ā-kāṅkṣa mfn. (in Gr.) requiring a word or words to complete the sense, Pāṇ. viii, 2, 96 and 104

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 305.
    ākāṅkṣa a. 1 Desiring, wishing. -2 (In gram.) Requiring some words to complete the sense; aṅgayuktaṃ tiḍākāṅkṣam P.VIII.2.96,104. -kṣā 1 Desire, wish; bhakta˚ Suśr., bhrāntyāliṅgya mayā rahasyamuditaṃ tatsaṅgamākāṅkṣayā Amaru. 46. -2 (In gram. &c.) The presence of a word necessary to complete the sense, one of the three elements necessary to convey a complete sense or thought (the other two being yogyatā and āsatti); ākāṅkṣā pratītiparyavasānavirahaḥ S. D.2 the absence of the completion of a sense; see Bhāṣā. P.82,84 and T. S.49; in the ex. gauraśvaḥ puruṣo hastī there is ākāṅkṣā. -3 Looking at or towards. -4 Purpose, intention. -5 Inquiry. -6 The significancy of a word. -7 Expectancy. asatyāmākāṅkṣāyāṃ saṃnidhānamakāraṇam, ŚB. on MS.6.4.23.

    Renou Terminologie grammaticale du Sanskrit

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 77.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 585.
    ākāṅkṣa (von kāṅkṣ mit ā) adj. verlangend, wünschend; gramm. eine Ergänzung (zur Vervollständigung des Sinnes) erfordernd: tiṅ ein verbum finitum, das ein anderes verbum finitum (einen zweiten Satz) zur Vervollständigung des Sinnes erfordert P. 8, 2, 96. 104.

    — Vgl. ākāṅkṣā .

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 158, col. 2.
    ākāṅkṣa

    — 1) Adj. eine Ergänzung erfordernd.

    — 2) f. ā

    — a) Verlangen , Wunsch.

    — b) das Erfordern einer Ergänzung.