अनुकथन

From अनु- (anu-, “along”) +‎ कथन (kathana, “speaking”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ.nu.kɐ.tʰɐ.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐˈn̪u.kɐ.t̪ʰɐ.n̪ɐ/

अनुकथन • (anukathana) stem, n

1. orderly narration, report, account
   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 1.1.61:

     चकार सख्यं रामेण प्रीतश् चैवाग्निसाक्षिकम् ।
     ततो वानरराजेन वैरानुकथनं प्रति ॥

     cakāra sakhyaṃ rāmeṇa prītaś caivāgnisākṣikam.
     tato vānararājena vairānukathanaṃ prati.

     The pleased Sugrīva, the king of monkeys, befriended Rāma with fire as the witness and did a narration of his hostilities .

• Monier Williams (1899) “अनुकथन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 31, column 1.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “anukathana”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “अनुकथन”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 89
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “अनुकथन”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 15