# अनुग्रह (anugraha)

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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.

- **Etymology:** E. अनु afterwards, ग्रह to take, and अच् aff — E. anu afterwards, graha to take, and ac aff
- **SLP1:** `anugraha`  **IAST:** anugraha  **Devanagari:** अनुग्रह
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/anugraha/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Favour, Kindness, and Benevolent Aid (11 definitions)
- favour, kindness, or conferring benefits  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (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 ]
- assistance  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > assistance [ ID=6234 ]
- favour  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अनुग्रह (anugraha) [Printed book page 015-3 ] अनुग्रह (anugraha) anu-graha, m. favour: -kṛt, a. giving satisfaction; -ṇa, n. showing favour; -artham, ad. in favour of; ī-kṛ, make a token of favour; -grāhaka, a. favouring, furthering, furthering; m. supporter; -grāhya, fp. deserving favour; favoured by ( g. ); -ghaṭana, n. continuation. [ ID=1641 ]
- Favour or conferring benefits  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अनु (anu) ग्रह (graha) (anugraha) [Printed book page 032 ] अनु (anu) ग्रह (graha) (anugraha) m. ( - हः (-haḥ) ) Favour; conferring benefits, promoting good, and preventing ill. E. अनु (anu) afterwards, ग्रह (graha) to take, and अच् (ac) aff. [ ID=1473 ]
- Favor  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अनुग्रह (anugraha) [Printed book page 026-b ] अनु - ग्रह (anu-graha) ( हः ) ((haḥ)) 1. m. Favor. [ ID=1252 ]
- 1. Favour or kindness. 2. Conferring benefits. 3. Acceptance.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अनुग्रह (anugraha) [Printed book page 022-36 ] अनुग्रह (anugraha) m. 1. Favour, kindness, R. ii.25; 2. conferring benefits; 3. acceptance. [ ID=1318 ]
- 1. Favour. 2. Conferring benefits.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अनु (anu) ग्रह (graha) (anugraha) [Printed book page 026-b ] अनु (anu) ग्रह (graha) (anugraha) m. ( - हः (-haḥ) ) Favour; conferring benefits, promoting good, and preventing ill. E. अनु (anu) afterwards, ग्रह (graha) to take, and अच् (ac) aff. [ ID=1471 ]
- 1. Promoting. 2. Favour. 3. Help.  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अनुग्रह (anugraha) [Printed book page 0021-b ] अनुग्रह (anugraha) anu-grah + a, m. 1. Pro- moting, Rām. 6, 11, 22. 2. Favour, Pañc. 34, 2. 3. Help, Böhtl. Ind. Spr. 1643. [ ID=385 ]
- Favour, kindness, service, benefit.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अनुग्रह (anugraha) [Printed book page 020 ] अनुग्रह (anugraha) m. favour, kindness, service, benefit. [ ID=1404 ]
- 1. Promoting good and preventing ill. 2. Conferring benefits or favor. 3. Aid or assistance. 4. Instruction in mystical verses.  
  *Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > 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 ]
- 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.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > 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 ]

### Cosmological/Philosophical Creation Term (2 definitions)
- an epithet of the eighth or fifth creation  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > N. of the eighth or fifth creation, Viṣṇu-purāṇa (Title) [ ID=6237 ]
- the fifth creation, divided into four parts: intellectual disability, power, satisfaction, and perfection  
  *The Purana Index*
  > 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 ]

### Aid via Incantations or Mystical Instruction (1 definition)
- facilitating by incantations  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > facilitating by incantations [ ID=6235 ]

### Military Term: Rear-guard (1 definition)
- rear-guard  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > rear-guard [ ID=6236 ]

## Sources

Definitions from 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, University of Cologne.

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