nūcā-nūcyā-nūcā &c.; du. nvañcau-nūcyau-nūcī; plur. -nvañcaḥ-nūcyaḥ
-nvañci; nūcaḥ-nūcīḥ-nvañci &c.) 1 Following; anūci (loc. sing.),
behind, from behind; e. g. āgacchato'nūci gajasya ghaṇṭayoḥ
svanaṃ samākarṇya samākulāṅganāḥ &c. (comm. anūci pṛṣṭhadeśe).
2 (ved.) Going along or lengthwise; as opposed to udac and
tiryac qq. vv.--The neuter anvak is used as adv. and as-
sumes in conjunction with bhūtvā or in composition with bhūya
and bhāvam (see anvagbhāvam) the meaning of ‘friendly or
favourably disposed’. [Pāṇini, in the rule III. 4. 64. makes
uses of the form anvaci which has the value there of a
locat. of anvac; Patanjali blames him for this liberty: a-
yukto'yaṃ nirdeśaḥ . anūcīti bhavitavyam . sautro'yaṃ nirdeśaḥ ..
But as Pāṇini expresses himself in a similar manner when
speaking of tiryac III. 4. 60. ‘tiryacyapavarge’--when he in-
curs a like remark from Patanjali--, it is perhaps more
just to say that he did not intend to speak in these rules
of the declinable anvac and tiryac, but of their neuters
become indeclinable; and that, his method requiring in these
rules the locative of the mentioned words, anvaci and ti-
ryaci were less objectionable than anvaki and tiryaki, while
anūci and tiraści, as suggested by Patanjali, would not
have necessarily conveyed the notion of indeclinable words.]
E. ac with anu, kṛt aff. kvin.
-ūcás [A. p. m.] {264,6}.
-ūcī́ [d. f.] {113,2} (dyā́vā).
in debilissimis anūc, ad analogiam pratyac, pratyañc,
pratīc, gr. 198.) sequens. AM.