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    See also anuśāsana, anuśāsanam.


    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 82, col. 3.
    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.

    para a. obedient.

    parvan N. of the 13th book of the Mahābhārata (so called because it lays down precepts of advice).

    Śabdakalpadruma

    vol. 1, p. 52.
    anuśāsanaṃ , klī, (anu + śās + bhāve lyuṭ .) ā-
    deśaḥ . ājñā . yathā,
    ityete brahmaṇaḥ puttrā āśrutyātmānuśāsanaṃ .
    iti śrībhāgavataṃ .. vyutpādanaṃ . yathā nāmaliṅgānu-
    śāsanamityamaraḥ .. (upadeśaḥ . niyogakaraṇaṃ .
    ahiṃsayaiva bhūtānāṃ kāryyaṃ śreyonuśāsanam .
    iti manuḥ .)