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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 149, col. 2.
    anyonyavṛtti Bahuvr. m. (-ttiḥ) (In the Sāṅkhya philosophy.)

    One calling the other into action, reciprocally causing each

    other to act; a condition of the three guṇa or qualities sattva,

    rajas and tamas qq. vv.; i. e. ‘one being or acting in the

    other; as a handsome and well behaved woman is at the

    same time a source of delight to every one else and one of

    misery to the other wives of her husband, as well as one

    of bewilderment to enamoured damsels, in the same manner

    sattwa calls into existence rajas and tamas &c.’, other similes

    being used to illustrate that rajas causes the action of sattwa

    and tamas, and tamas that of sattwa and rajas. (Vāchaspati

    does not recognise this condition of the three qualities;

    see anyonyajanana.) E. anyonya and vṛtti.

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

    p. 46, col. 1.
    anyonya—vṛtti m. mutual effect of one upon another.