anuṣaṅgaḥ1 Close adherence or attendance; connection, conjunction, association; tasya vairānuṣaṅgasya gantā'smyantaṃ sudurgamam Mb.5.162.35. sānuṣaṅgāṇi kalyāṇāni U.7. good things closely follow one another (come close upon one another). -2 Coalition, commixture. -3 Connection of word with word. -4 A word or words repeated from the context to supply an ellipsis. cf. anuṣaṅgaśca phalavacanamabhaviṣyat ŚB. on MS.6.1.5. -5 Necessary consequence, inevitable result. -6 Connection of a subsequent with a previous act. -7 Incidental mention or relation (prasaṅga). -8 Yearning, eager longing. -9 Compassion, pity, tenderness. -10 (In Nyāya) Connecting together the upanaya or application and nigamana or conclusion by the use of the pronoun idaṃ (upanayavākya- sthasya ayamiti padasya nigamanavākye ākarṣaṇam). -11 The nasals connected with certain roots ending in consonants; P. VII.1.59. Sk. -12 An ellipsis. A mode of interpreting an incomplete sentence by supplying the required word or words from the immediate context. This mode is admissible only if there is no break (vyavāya). This corresponds to the principle known as anuvṛtti (in grammar) on which a word or expression from a preceding sūtra is read in the succeeding sūtra or sūtras. nānuṣaṅgaḥ prāpnuyāt | kutaḥ | vyavāyāt | ŚB. on. MS.4.4.7.