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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 105, col. 1.
    anuśayāna Tatpur. 1. m. f. n. (-naḥ-nā-nam) Repenting, re-

    gretting.

    2. f. (-nā) One of the female characters described in

    the rhetorical literature; ‘a mistress who is overcome with

    sadness because she apprehends the loss of her lover, either

    on account of the breaking up of their actual meeting place,

    or for fear of not having one in future, or from the con-

    clusion she has arrived at that her husband might find her

    in a place which is not that of his family’.

    [3. n. (-nam) This word occurs in a Pāli inscription

    where it would appear to mean ‘repentance’ or ‘confession’.]

    E. śī with anu, kṛt aff. śānac.

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

    p. 40, col. 1.
    Anu-śayāna, as, ā, am, repenting, regretting;

    (ā), f. a particular kind of heroine or female cha-

    racter.

    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 83, col. 1.
    anuśayāna a. Regretting &c.

    A variety of heroine (parakīyanāyikābhedaḥ); one who is sad and dejected, being apprehensive of the loss of her lover (iṣṭahānijanitānutāpavatī).

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

    p. 39, col. 3.
    anu-śayāna mfn. repenting, regretting

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    vol. 1, p. 110.
    anuśayāna a. Regretting &c. - A variety of heroine (parakīyanāyikābhedaḥ); one who is sad and dejected, being apprehensive of the loss of her lover (iṣṭhahāni- janitānutāpavatī).

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 222.
    anuśayāna (wie eben)

    1) part. praes.

    — 2) f. °nā eine bes. Heroine: parakīyāntargatanāyikābhedaḥ . tasyā lakṣaṇam . iṣṭahānijanitānutāpavatī . iti rasamañjarī . ŚKDR.