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

    p. 1312, col. 2.
    anu-saṃdhi m. (in dram.) juncture of a Patākā or episode, Bhar.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 5, p. 993.
    anusaṃdhi m. Vereinigung VYUTP. 63.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 58, col. 2.
    *anusaṃdhi m. Vereinigung.

    Schmidt Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch

    p. 40, col. 1.
    *anusaṃdhi m., Vereinigung, H 34, 28. *

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 36, col. 1.
    anusaṃdhi (m., = Pali id., in mg. 2), (1) (literal,

    physical) connexion: Gv 268.5 lokadhātoḥ…cakravāḍ-

    ānusaṃdhau, in connexion with the cakravāḍa mountain-

    range of the lokadhātu (? or possibly to mg. 3, in the serial

    line of the…?); (2) (logical) connexion (esp. of a text);

    application: SP 394.1 (vs) anusaṃdhi sūtrāṇa sadā prajā-

    nati, he knows the logical connexion, or application, of the

    sūtras always; Dbh 42.22; 43.3; 51.21; Mvy 2176 = Tib.

    ḥtshams sbyor ba, conforming conjunction; Laṅk 143.7

    svapratyātmadharmatānusaṃdhiḥ katamat (! note gen-

    der), what thing is the application (logical connexion;

    virtually = meaning) of (the term) sva°?; vāsanānu-

    saṃdhi- LV 433.19; 442.8; Gv 108.14; (3) serial line,

    series; Suv 169.7 tasya tathāgatasyānusaṃdhau, in that

    T.'s line (of spiritual transmission, from one T. to another);

    Gv 206.13 buddhadarśanānusaṃdhau buddhaparaṃparā-

    nupacchedena; Laṅk 59.7 bhūmikramānusaṃdhau, in the

    serial line of steps of the (ten) Stages (of bodhisattvas);

    211.3 -nirodhakramānusaṃdhi-, serial line or succession

    (of steps) in (the development of) nirodha; (4) adv. °dhiṃ,

    Mv iii.394.19 (repeated 395.4, 9; 396.13), following anu-

    pūrvam, anulomam, and preceding anudharmam; perhaps

    prepositional cpd. (anu governing saṃdhi), according to

    the totality (or profound essence, see saṃdhi 5), but possibly

    rather with mg. 3, seriatim; the same adverb (or anu-

    saṃdhi) should be read for °dhiḥ in Bbh 107.15, after

    anupūrvam, and before anusahitaṃ, q.v.