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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 101, col. 2.
    anuvakra Tatpur. m. f. n. (-kraḥ-krā-kram) Somewhat oblique

    (another reading of this word is ativakra q. v.); applied

    esp. to the diurnal motion of a planet in its orbit (see gati),

    of which motions eight are enumerated, subdivided again

    into two classes; the anuvakragati belongs to that class of

    motions which is called vakra. E. anu and vakra.

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

    ☞ p. 38, col. 3.
    anuvakra anu-vakra, as, ā, am, somewhat

    crooked or oblique. —Anuvakra-ga, as, ā, am, having

    a somewhat oblique course (as a planet, &c.).

    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 80, col. 1.
    anuvakra a. [anukrameṇa vakraḥ] Very crooked; somewhat crooked or oblique; °ga moving somewhat obliquely or retrogressively (said of planets).

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

    ☞ p. 38, col. 1.
    anu-vakra mfn. somewhat crooked or oblique.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 106.
    anuvakra a. [anukrameṇa vakraḥ Very crooked; somewhat crooked or oblique; ˚ga moving somewhat obliquely or retrogressively (said of planets).

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 7, p. 1694.
    anuvakra adj. Bez. einer best. Bewegung der Planeten KERN in Ind. St. 10, 206. fgg. MBH. 6, 85. SŪRYAS. 2, 12. Hiernach auch anuvakraga (auch SŪRYAS. 2, 13) zu verbessern.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 56, col. 3.
    anuvakra Adj. (f. ā) Bez. einer best. Bewegung eines Planeten. n. diese Bewegung. In °ga Adv.

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 184, col. 1.
    anuvakra tri0 anukrameṇa vakraḥ . ativakre “yasya vakrānu-
    vakrāgrahā” iti muśrutam ativakratvañca grahāṇām
    “ativakrā nagāṣṭaga” iti sūryyākrāntarāśyapekṣayā saptāṣṭa-
    masthānasthitau bhavati .