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    See also anaṃda.


    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 69, col. 1.
    ananda Bahuvr. m. pl. (-ndāḥ) (In the Upanishads) the name

    of a world where those are doomed to reside after their

    death, who have not acquired spiritual knowledge or who

    have made to a priest a sacrificial gift of an old or de-

    fective cow &c. E. a priv. and nanda; literally: ‘having or

    giving no pleasure or joy’.

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

    p. 25, col. 3.
    ananda a-nanda, as, ā, am, joyless, cheer-

    less; (ās), m. pl., Ved., N. of a purgatory.

    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 15.
    ananda m. pl. N. of a cert. world.

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

    p. 25, col. 1.
    a-nanda mfn. joyless, cheerless
    p. 25, col. 1.
    a-nanda m. pl. N. of a purgatory, Up.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    vol. 1, p. 75.
    ananda a. [na nandayati; nand-ṇic ac] Joyless, cheerless -ndaḥ N. of a purgatory.

    Stchoupak Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    p. 27, col. 1.
    ananda- m. pl. n. d'un monde.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 172.
    ananda (3. a + nanda)

    1) adj. freudlos.

    — 2) m. pl. N. einer Welt: anandā ( MĀDHY.-Rec. : asuryā) nāma te lokā andhena tamasā vṛtāḥ BṚH. ĀR. UP. 4, 4, 11. KAṬHOP. 1, 3.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 40, col. 2.
    ananda m. Pl. N.pr. einer Welt.

    Vācaspatyam

    p. 149, col. 1.
    ananda tri0 na nandayati nandaṇicac na0 ta0 . āna-
    ndayitṛbhinne anandā, nāma te lokā iti kaṭha0 va0 .