anuvādyatva

anuvādyatva n. (-tvam) The quality of being the subject or the

basis of an anuvāda (q. v.), the being the cause of expla-

natory injunctions, accessory rites &c. (compare anuvāda),

one of the three properties of the phala or ultimate object

of a sacrificial act which is instrumental in fulfilling the

wishes of the agent. (For the two other properties of the

phala see uddeśyatva and mukhyatva or pradhānatva, and for those of

the sacrificial act upādeyatva (the correlate of anuvādyatva),

vidheyatva (the correlate of uddeśyatva) and guṇatva (the correlate

of mukhyatva). E. anuvādya, taddh. aff. tva.

anu-vādya—tva n. the state of requiring to be explained by an anuvāda.