anartha

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. [na. ba.] 1 Useless, worth- less; śunaḥ pucchamivānarthaṃ pāṃḍityaṃ dharmavarjitaṃ Pt. 3. 97. --2 Unfortunate, unhappy. --3 Harmful, disastrous, bad; citta- jñānānuvartino'narthā api priyāḥ syuḥ Dk. 160; wicked (opp. dakṣiṇa). --4 Not having that meaning (but another); having no meaning, nonsensical, meaningless. --5 Poor. --rthaḥ [na. ta.] 1 [Page0058-c+ 57] Non-use or value. --2 A worthless or useless object....

[mw] m. non-value, a worthless or useless object 26,2 5216 m. disappointing occurrence, reverse, evil 26,2 5217 m. nonsense 26,2 5218 mfn. worthless, useless, bad 26,2 5219

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Appears in 46 texts

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a. [na. ba.] 1 Useless, worth- less; śunaḥ pucchamivānarthaṃ pāṃḍityaṃ dharmavarjitaṃ Pt. 3. 97. --2 Unfortunate, unhappy. --3 Harmful, disastrous, bad; citta-...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

235

Texts Appeared In

38

DCS: an earthquake | Monier-Williams: nonsensical.

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Mahābhārata 82 34.9%
2. Kāmasūtra 42 17.9%
3. Rāmāyaṇa 21 8.9%
4. Saundarānanda 11 4.7%
5. Garuḍapurāṇa 10 4.3%

Concordance (Sample)

• Pañcārthabhāṣya surface: anartha

  atra śokaścintetyanarthāntaram

• Bhāgavatapurāṇa surface: anartha

  āsaktamanaso martyā ātmano 'narthahetuṣu

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: anartha

  anarthadarśinī maurkhyān nātmānam avabudhyase