vEKAnasa a. ( sI f. ) Relating to a hermit, ascetic, monastic; vEKAnasaM kimanayA vratamA pradAnAd vyApAraroDi madanasya nizevitavyaM Ś. 1. 27. — saH An anchorite, a hermit ( vAnaprasTa ); a Brāhmaṇa in the third order of his religious life; R. 14. 28 ; Bk. 3. 46.