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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 145, col. 1.
    anyalakṣaṇopapatti Tatpur. f. (-ttiḥ) The taking place (of some-

    thing) in consequence of the symptom i. e. the existence (of

    something else) being found somewhere else; in a Nyāya

    Sūtra, where the possibility of non-existence is argued from

    the circumstance that the existence of the counter-entity

    might be elsewhere: asatyarthe nābhāva iti cennānyalakṣaṇopapatteḥ

    ‘if (you say that there is) no non-existence since the thing

    is not, it is not so, for (non-existence) might be, since (the

    counter-entity) might exist elsewhere’. E. anya (in the sense

    of a locative) -lakṣaṇa (of an instrum.) and upapatti.