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अन्यस्त्री (anyastrI)

 
Goldstucker
English
अन्यस्त्री Tatpur. f. (-स्त्री) A woman not one's own. [In
Rhetoric she is one of the three categories of the principal
female character in a poetical composition (the two other
being स्वस्त्री or स्वीया and साधारणस्त्री or सामान्यनायिका
qq. vv.
the अन्यस्त्री or परकीया is either ‘another's wife’
or a ‘damsel’
as ‘another's wife’ ‘she is fond of festivals
and the like opportunities, is a disgrace to her family, bare
of modesty’
the ‘damsel’ is ‘one not yet married, bashful
and arrived at the period of youth’. Each of these two
has again eight subdivisions
‘she may be one who has an
obsequious lover, or one who is ill-treated, or one who
goes after her lover, or one who is separated from him by a
quarrel, or one who is neglected, or one whose lover is abroad,
or one who is prepared in her house to receive him, or one
who is longing in absence of her lover’). E. अन्य and स्त्री.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
अन्यस्त्री
स्त्री*
 अन्य-स्त्री -
"दूसरे की पत्नी, जो अपनी पत्नी न हो"
L R Vaidya
English
anya-strI {% f. %} a woman not one’s own. In rhetoric, she is one of the three categories of the principal female characters in a poetical composition, the other two being स्वीया and साधारणस्त्री. अन्यस्त्री is either ‘another’s wife, ’ or ‘a damsel.’ As ‘another’s wife, ’ she is fond of festivals and the like opportunities, is a disgrace to her family, bare of modesty. The ‘damsel’ is one not yet married, bashful and arrived at the age of puberty.