anuśāsanaṃ Advice, persuasion, direction, order, command; instruction, laying down rules or precepts; a law, rule, precept; treatment (of a subject), (with the object in comp. or with gen., the agent, if expressed, being put in the instr. or gen.); bhavatyadhikṣepa ivānuśāsanaṃ Ki. 1. 28 words of advice; tanmanoranuśāsanaṃ Ms. 8. 139; 6. 50; 2. 159; yauvana° K. 146; nāmaliṃga° laying down rules on the gender of nouns, explanation of gender &c.; śabdānuśāsanaṃ Sk.; śabdānāmanuśāsanamācāryasya ācāryeṇa vā P. II. 3. 66 Sk. Comp.—paraa. obedient. —parvan N. of the 13th book of the Mahābhārata (so called because it lays down precepts of advice).