Sthunanikhanananyaya, Sthūṇānikhanananyāya, Sthuna-nikhanananyaya: 2 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Sthūṇānikhanananyāya (स्थूणानिखननन्याय).—see Appendix.

Sthūṇānikhanananyāya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sthūṇā and nikhanananyāya (निखननन्याय).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sthūṇānikhanananyāya (स्थूणानिखननन्याय):—[=sthūṇā-nikhanana-nyāya] [from sthūṇā > sthū] m. the rule of digging or fixing a post more deeply into the soil (applied to a disputant who adds corroborative arguments etc. to confirm an already strong position), [Apte’s The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

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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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