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    See also anuvahaḥ.


    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 102, col. 1.
    anuvaha Tatpur. m. (-haḥ) The seventh of the seven tongues

    or flames of the sacrificial fire (lit. carrying along), also

    called nivaha (the others are: pravaha, āvaha, udvaha, saṃvaha,

    vivaha and parivaha. Compare also s. v. agnijihvā). E. vah

    with anu, kṛt aff. ac.

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

    p. 39, col. 1.
    anuvaha anu-vaha, as, m. (rt. vah), one of

    the seven tongues of fire; (‘bearing after.’)

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

    p. 38, col. 2.
    anu-vaha m. ‘bearing after’, one of the seven tongues of fire.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 219.
    anuvaha (von vah mit anu) m. nachführend, so heisst eine der 7 Zungen des Feuers (v. l. für nivaha) COLEBR. Misc. Ess. I, 190, N.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 57, col. 1.
    anuvaha m. eine der 7 Zungen des Feuers.

    The Purāṇa Index

    vol. 1, p. 60.
    Anuvaha — the chief of the 6th vātaskandha, situated

    between the planets and the Saptaṛṣimaṇḍala.

    Br. III. 5. 87.