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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 149, col. 1.
    anyonyajanana Tatpur. (In the Sāṅkhya philosophy.) 1. n. (-nam)

    The producing each other; see the following.

    2. m. (-naḥ) Producing each other; a condition of the

    three guṇa or qualities sattva, rajas and tamas qq. vv. ‘as a

    lump of clay produces a jar’; comp. also anyonyamithuna, a-

    nyonyābhibhava, anyonyāśraya, anyonyavṛtti. [In the Sāṅkhya-

    kārikā v. 12, where these terms occur ‘anyonyābhibhavāśraya-

    jananamithunavṛttayaśca guṇāḥ’ Vāchaspati combines vṛtti with

    each of the former and analyses therefore anyonyābhibhavavṛtti

    &c., while Gauḍapāda takes anyonyavṛtti for a separate con-

    dition.] E. anyonya and janana.