See also anuvacanam, anuvacanaṃ.
1 Concordance, conformity to or concurrence with a previous text or authority.
2 Subsidiary or similar doctrine.
E. anu, and vacana speech.
with, repeating, reciting; e. g. vedānuvacana repeating the
words of the Veda in the same manner as the teacher has
enounced them, i. e. reading or studying the Veda; sāvi-
tryanuvacana reciting the Sāvitrī hymn. 2 A lecture or chapter
(esp. in the Kāṭhaka recension of the black Yajurveda).
3 (In the liturgical literature.) The speaking of and the name
of certain vaidik passages or mantras which are addressed
by certain priests at sacrifices to the deity in consequence
of, and in conformity with, other passages spoken by other
priests, esp. by the Adhvaryu, which contain an injunction or
praiṣa (q. v. and compare anuvācana); the anuvacana are either
connected with the praiṣa immediately (see samasta), or separated
from them by other words (see vyasta); e. g. such anuvacana
as pra vo vājā abhidyavaḥ . añjanti tvāmadhvare devayantaḥ &c.
are separated from praiṣa such as agnaye samidhyamānāyānubrūhi .
yūpāyājyamānāyānubrūhi, while in the instances hotāyakṣadagniṃ
&c. the anuvacana is immediately followed by the praiṣa ‘ho-
turyaja’, or in the instance maitrāvaruṇaḥ preṣyati cānu cāha, the
anuvachana ‘anu cāha’ follows immediately the praisha maitrā°.
E. vac with anu, kṛt aff. lyuṭ.
Studying, Vedāntas. in Chr. 203, 1. 2.
A section.
n. (-naṃ)
1. Concordance, conformity to or concurrence with a
previous text or authority.
2. Subsidiary or similar doctrine.
E. anu,
and vacana speech.
1) das Nachsprechen, Wiederholen, Hersagen, Recitiren ŚAT. BR. 1, 3, 5, 13. KĀTY. ŚR. 3, 1, 12. SĀY. zu AIT. BR. 1, 29. 30. das Lesen, Studium: tametaṃ (ātmānaṃ) vedānuvacanéna (sic) brāhmaṇā vividiṣanti ŚAT. BR. 14, 7, 2, 25. = BṚH. ĀR. UP. 4, 4, 22. YĀJÑ. 3, 190. Lehre: iti triśaṅkorvedānuvacanam TAITT. UP. 1, 10.
— 2) Lection, Abschnitt Verz. d. B. H. No. 142. Ind. St. I, 70, 2; vgl. anuvāka .
— 1) das Nachsprechen , Wiederholen , Hersagen GAUT. 1,53. 55.
— 2) Abschnitt , Lection.