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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 142, col. 1.
    anyathākāra Tatpur. I. m. (-raḥ) Altering, changing, e. g. the

    sense of an expression, by punning on it; vakroktau parokte-

    ranyathākāraḥ. E. anyathā and kāra.

    II. ind. (-ram) In another manner, differently; e. g.

    anyathākāraṃ bhuṅkte he eats in another manner. [According

    to the Kāśikā on Pāṇini III. 4. 27. kāram would in this

    case be a kind of expletive or superfluous, the word of the

    Sūtra siddhāprayogaḥ being thus commented by it: kathaṃ puna-

    rasau siddhāprayogaḥ . nirarthakatvānna prayogamarhati . evameva prayu-

    jyate; and similarly the Siddh. K.: kṛñvyarthatvātprayogānarha

    ityarthaḥ; but Bhaṭṭoji in the Prauḍhaman. is probably more

    correct when he refers to the bearing of the word (śābda-

    bodha) and says, that kāram effectuates a stronger connexion

    between the verb and the adverb than would be expressed

    without it, when siddhāprayoga in the Sūtra of Pāṇini would not

    convey the notion of ‘absolute superfluity’ but rather that

    of ‘not excessive necessity’: śābdabodhe tu vailakṣaṇyamastyeva .

    tathā hi . kriyāsāmānyavacanaḥ karotiḥ . tadīyaśca prakāro

    'nyathādiśabdacatuṣṭvenocyate . evaṃ ca . anyathākāramityādibhi-

    ścaturbhiḥ prakāraviśeṣaviśiṣṭakriyā bodhyate . sā ca bhuṅktephala-

    viśiṣṭakriyāṃ prati viśeṣaṇatayā saṃbadhyate . ekasyā api kri-

    yāyā viśeṣaṇoparāgeṇa bhinnāyā viśeṣaṇaviśeṣyabhāvasaṃbhavāt .

    kathaṃ tarhi siddhāprayogaścedityuktamiti cet . anatiprayojanatvā-

    diti gṛhāṇa .. &c. Patanjali and his comm. give no gloss

    on this Sūtra.] E. anyathā and kāram (kṛ, kṛt aff. ṇamul).

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

    p. 45, col. 3.
    anya-thā—kāra m. doing otherwise changing