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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 120, col. 1.
    antaratāntaratāntaratā f. (-tā) [A specimen of the linguistic

    taste displayed in the Nalodaya; this word is analyzed by

    the comm. either as:] 1 A condition in which the essence(?)

    of amorous pleasure is not rank in the heart (when tānta

    seems to have been mistaken for tata, as ‘not languid’

    might be expected instead of atānta = ‘avistīrṇa’, not rank,

    not spread), or 2 Dwandwa. A woman who has obtained

    no pleasure in her heart and wanders in her mind (to her

    husband i. e. thinks of him, when equally atānta is made

    to represent atata). E. 1 antar-atānta-rata-antara, taddh.

    aff. tā; 2 antar-atānta-rata, fem. aff. ṭāp and antar-ata

    (from at to go), fem. aff. ṭāp.