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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anyastrī (अन्यस्त्री).—another's wife, a woman not one's own. [In Rhetoric she is considered as one of three chief female characters in a poetical composition, the other two being स्वीया (svīyā) and साधारणी स्त्री (sādhāraṇī strī). अन्या (anyā) may be either a damsel or another's wife. The 'damsel' is one not yet married, who is bashful and arrived at the age of puberty. As "another's wife" she is fond of festivals and similar occasions of amusement, who is a disgrace to her family and utterly destitute of modesty, see S. D. 18-11]. °गः (gaḥ) an adulterer. यस्य स्तेनः पुरे नास्ति नान्यस्त्रीगो न दुष्टवाक् (yasya stenaḥ pure nāsti nānyastrīgo na duṣṭavāk)... स राजा शक्रलोकभाक् (sa rājā śakralokabhāk); Manusmṛti 8.386. [Note: Some compounds under अन्य (anya) will be found under अनन्य (ananya).]

Anyastrī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anya and strī (स्त्री).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anyastrī (अन्यस्त्री):—[tatpurusha compound] f.

(-strī) A woman not one’s own. [In Rhetoric she is one of the three categories of the principal female character in a poetical composition (the two other being svastrī or svīyā and sādhāraṇastrī or sāmānyanāyikā qq. vv.; the anyastrī or parakīyā is either ‘another’s wife’ or a ‘damsel’; as ‘another’s wife’ ‘she is fond of festivals and the like opportunities, is a disgrace to her family, bare of modesty’; the ‘damsel’ is ‘one not yet married, bashful and arrived at the period of youth’. Each of these two has again eight subdivisions; ‘she may be one who has an obsequious lover, or one who is ill-treated, or one who goes after her lover, or one who is separated from him by a quarrel, or one who is neglected, or one whose lover is abroad, or one who is prepared in her house to receive him, or one who is longing in absence of her lover’). E. anya and strī.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Anya, Stri.

Starts with: Anyastriga, Anyastriputrotpadaka.

Ends with: Panyastri.

Full-text: Anyastriga, Striga, Anyastriputrotpadaka, Anyodha, Nayika, Parakiya, Kanyaka, Ga, Anya, Abhisarika.

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