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    anucara

    See also anucaraḥ.

    Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 32.
    anucara m. (-raḥ)

    1 A companion, a follower.

    2 A servant. f. (-rī) A female companion.

    E. anu with or after, and cara to go, ṭa aff.

    Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 26, col. 2.
    anu-cara (raḥ) 1. m. A follower.

    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 87, col. 2.
    anucara Tatpur. 1. m. f. n. (-raḥ-rī-ram) Going or coming

    after, following.

    2. m. f. (-raḥ-rī) 1 A follower, a companion. 2 A ser-

    vant, an attendant. (The fem. form anucarā, if not the latter

    part of a Bahuvr. compound, is grammatically incorrect.

    E. car with anu, kṛt aff. ac; cara being ṭit or, according

    to some, car with anu, kṛt aff. ṭa.

    Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 21, col. 2.
    anucara anu-car-a, I. adj. f. rā.

    Following, Ragh. 2, 4. II. m. 1. A

    servant, an attendant, Pañc. 68, 11.

    2. A supporter, Rājat. 5, 288. III. f. rā

    (ved. also rī), A female servant, Rām.

    6, 38, 14. — Comp. Lakṣmaṇa-, adj. ac-

    companied by Lakṣmaṇa, Rām. 1, 24, 3.

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

    ☞ p. 33, col. 1.
    Anu-cara, as, ī, am, following, attending; (as),

    m. companion, follower, servant; (ā or ī), f. a female

    attendant.

    Lanman’s Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

    ☞ p. 116, col. 1.
    anucará, a. going after; as m. attendant; companion. [√car + anu.]

    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 20.
    anucará f. ī going after, following. m. attendant, servant (adj. —° f. ā); f. ī́ maid-servant.

    Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 15, col. 3.
    anucara anu-cará, a. (ī; -° ā) following; m.
    attendant: pl. retinue.

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

    ☞ p. 32, col. 2.
    anu-cará mf(ī́)n. following, attending
    ☞ p. 32, col. 2.
    anu-cará m. companion, follower, servant

    Śabdasāgara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 26, col. 2.
    anucara

    m. (-raḥ)

    1. A companion, a follower.

    2. A servant.

    f. (-rī) A fe-
    male companion.

    E. anu with or after, and cara to go, ṭa aff.

    Burnouf Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    ☞ p. 22, col. 2.
    anucara anucara m. (car) celui qui suit: compagnon;

    suivant; valet; serviteur.

    F. anucarā compagne; suivante.

    Stchoupak Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    ☞ p. 34, col. 2.
    anu-cara- -ī- a. qui suit; m. assistant, servant (f. aussi -ā-); pl. (gens de la) suite; -tva- nt. fait d'assister ou de servir.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 202.
    anucará (von car mit anu)

    1) adj. nachgehend, folgend AK. 2, 8, 2, 39. das obj. im gen.: tenānucareṇa dhenoḥ RAGH. 2, 4. mit dem obj. componirt: ātmānucarasya bhāvaṃ jijñāsamānā RAGH. 2, 26.

    — 2) m.

    a) Begleiter, Diener, pl. Gefolge AK. 3, 6, 11. H. 496. kathaṃ hyanucarānhitvā śatrumadhye palāyase DRAUP. 8, 59. mit dem gen. YĀJÑ. 3, 116. HIT. 17, 20. MEGH. 3. im comp.: vibudhānucarāśca ye M. 12, 47. devānucarasya RAGH. 2, 52. rājānucaraiḥ ITIH. bei ROSEN zu ṚV. 18, 1. f. anucarī Dienerin: catvāri ca śatānyanucarīṇām ŚAT. BR. 13, 5, 2, 1. 4, 27. KĀTY. ŚR. 20, 1, 12. 5, 17. 6, 19. 20. 8, 25. 27. anucarījātīya von demselben Geschlecht als die Dienerin 20, 2, 20. anucarā R. 6, 38, 14 : apsaraso mahendrānucarā daśa Am Ende eines adj. comp. (f. ā) — zum Begleiter habend, begleitet von —: dvyanucaro madhuparko bho iti KAUŚ. 90. sutaṃ lakṣmaṇānucaram R. 1, 24, 3. lakṣmaṇānucaro rāmaḥ 4, 16, 10. sumitrānucarā 2, 75, 14. vivarānucaro granthirapsu budbudako yathā SUŚR. 1, 282, 5.

    — b) die Folgestrophe, entsprechend der Eingangsstrophe (pratipad), bei gewissen gottesdienstlichen Recitationen: ā tvā rathaṃ yathotaya ( ṚV. 8, 57, 1.) idaṃ vaso sutamandha ( 2, 1.) iti rāthaṃtarī pratipadrāthaṃtaro 'nucaraḥ AIT. BR. 8, 1. ĀŚV. ŚR. 5, 14. 18. 7, 6.

    ☞ vol. 5, p. 986.
    anucara

    1) f. ī Spr. 2651.

    — 2)

    a) Z. 2 ŚAT. BR. 13, 5, 1, 9 gehört zu b. pārthasyānucarāḥ Gefolge so v. a. Partei RĀJA-TAR. 5, 288. anucarī Begleiterin, Dienerin ĀŚV. ŚR. 10, 8, 11. KATHĀS. 20, 146.

    — b) lies Folgestrophe.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 51, col. 2.
    anucará

    — 1) Adj. (f. ī) nachgehend , folgend 141,22.

    — 2) m.

    — a) Begleiter , Diener. Pl. Gefolge. Am Ende eines adj. Comp. f. ā.

    — b) Folgestrophe.

    — 3) f. ī́ Begleiterin , Dienerin. °rījātīya Adj. KĀTY. ŚR. 20,2,11.

    Cappeller Sanskrit Wörterbuch

    ☞ p. 14, col. 2.
    anucara f. ī nachgehend; folgend, Diener, in; Begleiter, in (adj. —° f. ā); Pl. Gefolge.

    Bopp Glossarium Sanscritum

    ☞ p. 10, col. 1.
    anucara m. (r. car s. a) 1) qui sequitur, comes, socius.

    HIT. 17. 20. 2) servus, subjectus. DR. 8. 59.

    Abhidhānaratnamālā of Halāyudha

    ☞ p. 49.
    anucara;
    anujīvī sahāyaḥ syātsevako'nucaro'nugaḥ .. 428 ..
    2.1.1.428

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 172, col. 2.
    anucara tri0 anucarati anu + cara—ṭa striyāṃ ṅīp ac vā
    striyāṃ ṭāp . sahacare, paścādgāmini, dāsādau, “vratāya
    tenānucareṇa dhenoriti” “anyedyurātmānucarasya bhāvamiti
    ca” raghuḥ . anugataścaraṃ dūtaṃ gatisa0 . dūtānuge tri0 .
    sevake ca, “gandharvā guhyakāyakṣā vibudhānucarāśca ye” iti
    manuḥ “catvāri ca śatānyanucaraṇāmiti” kau0 brā0
    “apsaraso mahendrānucarā daśeti “saumitrisītānucara-
    syeti” bhaṭṭiḥ . “pālāgalī sānucaryyaḥ śatena śatena” iti
    kātyā0 20, 1, 12, etadvyākhyāyāṃ bahuśaḥ anucarīśabda-
    prayogastatra draṣṭavyaḥ pālāgalī dāsaputrī .

    Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata

    ☞ p. 42, col. 2.
    *Anucara, pl. (“companions”). § 615u (Skanda): IX,

    45γ, 2517 (Airāvataḥ sānuśaraḥ), 2519 (Yamasya), 2537

    (δ: Aṃśa gave five anucarān to Skanda: Paragha, Vaṭa,

    Bhīma, Dahati, and Dahana), 2539 (ε: Viṣṇu gave three

    anucarān to Skanda: Cakra, Vikramaka, and Saṃkrama),

    2617 (the companions of Skanda); 46, 2619 (Mātṛ-gaṇān

    Kumārānucarān).—IX, 45, 2527 (caturtham asyānucaraṃ

    khyātaṃ Kumudamālinaṃ|tataḥ Sthāṇur mahātejā mahā-

    pāriṣadaṃ prabhuḥ).—§ IX, 45, 2532 (tataḥ prādād

    anucarau Yamaḥ Kālopamāv ubhau), 2534 (Somo 'py anucarau

    śūrau parasainyapratāpinau), 2535, 2542, 2550.

    The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 23.
    Anu-cara. — This is a general expression1 for an ‘attendant’

    (the feminine being Anucarī),2 but it is not often used. [Footnote] 1) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxx. 13; Tait-

    tirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4, 7, 1. [Footnote] 2) Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xiii. 5, 4,

    27 (apparently slave girls are meant,

    400 being enumerated).

    The Purāṇa Index

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 57.
    Anucara — a god of the Haritagaṇa.

    Br. IV. 1. 84.

    Renou Vocabulaire du rituel védique

    ☞ p. 11.

    Tāntrikābhidhānakośa

    ☞ vol. 3, p. 577.