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    Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 12.
    ajanya n. (-nyaṃ) A portent, an omen; any natural phenomenon, as an earthquake, &c. so considered. mfn. (-nyaḥ-nyā-nyaṃ) Not to be born or produced.

    E. a neg. and janya birth.

    Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 11, col. 1.
    a-janya (nyaṃ) 1. n. A portent, omen.

    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 24, col. 2.
    ajanya Tatpur. I. m. f. n. (-nyaḥ-nyā-nyam) 1 Not to be born

    or produced. 2 Not fit for or favourable to men.

    II. n. (-nyam) A portent, an omen, any natural pheno-

    menon as an earthquake &c. so considered. E. a neg.

    and janya.

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

    p. 9, col. 3.
    A-janya, as, ā, am, improper to be produced or

    born; unfit or unfavourable for mankind; (am), n.

    any portent or natural phenomenon unfavourable to

    mankind, as an earthquake.

    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 24, col. 1.
    ajanya a. Not fit to be produced; not favourable to mankind.

    nyaṃ [laukikahetubhirna janyate; jan-ṇic-yat] A portentous phenomenon, inauspicious to mankind, such as earth-quake.

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

    p. 10, col. 1.
    a-janya mfn. improper to be produced or born
    p. 10, col. 1.
    unfit for mankind
    p. 10, col. 1.
    a-janya n. any portent unfavourable to mankind, as an earthquake.

    Śabdasāgara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 10, col. 2.
    ajanya

    n. (-nyaṃ) A portent, an omen; any natural phenomenon, as an
    earthquake, &c. so considered.

    mfn. (-nyaḥ-nyā-nyaṃ) Not to be born or
    produced.

    E. a neg. and janya birth.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    vol. 1, p. 31.
    ajanya a. Not fit to be produced; not favourable to mankind. -nyam [laukikahetubhirna janyate; jan-ṇic-yat] A portentous phenomenon, inauspicious to mankind, such as earth-quake.

    Burnouf Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    p. 11, col. 1.
    ajanya ajanya n. (jan) prodige, miracle; phénomène extraordinaire.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 68.
    ajanya (3. a + janya)

    1) adj. was nicht entstehen (jan), geschehen dürfte oder nicht von Menschen (jana) ausgehend, den Menschen nicht zuträglich.

    — 2) n. ein Unglück verheissendes Naturereigniss AK. 2, 8, 2, 77. H. 126. HĀR. 210.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 15, col. 2.
    *ajanya n. ein Unglück verheissendes Naturereigniss.

    Schmidt Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch

    p. 11, col. 3.
    ajanya Adj. nicht erzeugt werdend. Nom. abstr. °tva n. Sarvad. 119, 22.

    — Bhadrab. 4, 21. 23.

    Bopp Glossarium Sanscritum

    p. 4, col. 1.
    ajanya n. (ex a priv. et janya, a r. jan s. ya, gignendus)

    miraculum, portentum, prodigium.

    Abhidhānaratnamālā of Halāyudha

    p. 16.
    ajanya;
    upaliṅgamariṣṭaṃ syādupasarga upadravastathotpātaḥ .
    ītirajanyaṃ ca budhairḍamaro ḍimbaśca viplavaḥ kathitaḥ .. 127 ..
    1.1.1.127

    Vācaspatyam

    p. 89, col. 1.
    ajanya strī laukikahetubhirna janyate janaṇicyat na0 ta0 .
    śubhāśubhasūcakedaivakṛte bhūkampādāvutpāte . janyabhinne tri0 .

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 7, col. 1.
    ajanya (cf. Pali ajañña), prob. ignoble, debased:

    ajanyasya brāhmaṇasya putro Mv i.319.12; 321.16; 323.7;

    said of Jyotipāla; since he was a friend of a potter's son,

    his father may have been an outcaste brahman. Senart

    assumes mg. noble, on grounds which I find unconvincing

    The mg. I assume fits the Pali ajañña, Jāt, ii.437.17

    In Mv iii.119.23 prob. read with v.l. anajanyarathā, not

    ignoble chariots, for ajanya° of text. (Meter is bad in either

    case.) In Kv 42.10 for na jatyeṣu read perhaps nājanyeṣu,

    not among ignoble people; see s.v. jatya.