अनुग्रह (anugraha) is a Sanskrit word meaning favour, kindness, or conferring benefits, assistance, facilitating by incantations, rear-guard, an epithet of the eighth or fifth creation, favor, kindness, or conferring benefits. Its 15 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them Favour, Kindness, and Benevolent Aid, Cosmological/Philosophical Creation Term, Aid via Incantations or Mystical Instruction.
(H2) [Printed book page 32,1] अनु-ग्रह (anu-graha)m. favour, kindness, showing favour, conferring benefits, promoting or furthering a good object [ID=6233]
1. Promoting good and preventing ill. 2. Conferring benefits or favor. 3. Aid or assistance. 4. Instruction in mystical verses.
अनुग्रह (anugraha) [Printed book page 087-a] अनुग्रह (anugraha) Tatpur. m. (-हः (-haḥ)) 1 Promoting good and preventing ill or
(according to another interpretation) promoting good by
preventing ill. 2 The conferring benefits, favour. 3 Aid,
assistance. 4 Instructing in the mystical verses or incan-
tations of the Vedas(?). 5 See अनुग्रह (anugraha)सर्ग (anugrahasarga). E. ग्रह् (grah) with अनु, (anu,)
kṛt aff. अप् (ap).
[ID=2900]
— Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Favor, kindness, or conferring benefits.
2. Promoting a good object or providing assistance.
3. Facilitating by incantation.
4. A rear-guard.
5. In the Puranas, the eighth or fifth creation.
अनुग्रह (anugraha) [Printed book page 0033-a] Anu-graha, as, m. or anu-grahaṇa, am, n. favour, kindness, showing favour, conferring benefits, promoting or furthering a good object; assistance; facilitating by incantation; rear-guard; (in the Purā- ṇas) N. of the eighth or fifth creation. —Anugraha-kātara, as, ā, am, anxious to please or for favour. —Anugraha-sarga, as, m. (in Sāṅkhya phil.) crea- tion of the feelings or mental conditions. [ID=2056]
the fifth creation, divided into four parts: intellectual disability, power, satisfaction, and perfection
अनुग्रह (anugraha) [Printed book page 1-057] Anugraha Sarga — divided into four, viparyaya, śakti,tuṣṭi, and siddhi; accounts for vivṛtta, and the varttamāna (present) in cycle; this is the fifth sarga or creation. Vā. 6. 57, 67-9; 9. 117. [ID=434]
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Definitions on this page come from 11 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
