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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 91, col. 2.
    anunāyikā Tatpur. f. (-kā) A secondary or inferior female

    character in a drama, one subordinate to the nāyikā or prin-

    cipal female character, such as ‘a friend, a female devotee,

    a slave, a nurse or female artisans’. E. anu and nāyikā.

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

    p. 35, col. 1.
    Anu-nāyikā, f. a female character, subordinate to

    a nāyikā or leading female character in a drama.

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

    p. 34, col. 1.
    anu-nāyikā f. a female character subordinate to a nāyikā or leading female character in a drama.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 206.
    anunāyikā (1. anu + nāyikā) f. eine Heroine zweiten Ranges: sakhī pravrajikā dāsī preṣyā dhātreyikā tathā . anyāśca śilpakāriṇyo vijñeyā hyanunāyikāḥ .. BHARATA beim Sch. zu ŚĀK. 9, 6.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 53, col. 1.
    anunāyikā f. Heroine zweiten Ranges.

    Vācaspatyam

    p. 175, col. 1.
    anunāyikā strī anugatā nāyikām . nāyikānugatāyām
    sakhī prabrajitā dāsī preṣyā dhātreyikā tathā . anyāśca
    śilpakāriṇyo vijñeyā hyanunāyikā ityuktadāsyādo .