तदानीम्

Enlargement of तदा (tadā́, “then”). Compare the coordinate term इदानीम् (idā́nīm, “now”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /tɐ.dɑ́ː.niːm/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t̪ɐ.d̪ɑː.n̪iːm/

तदानीम् • (tadā́nīm)

1. then, at that time

   Synonym: तदा (tadā)

   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.129.1:

     नास॑द् आसी॒न् नो सद् आ॑सीत् त॒दानीं॒ नासी॒द् रजो॒ नो व्यो॑मा प॒रो यत् ।
     किम् आव॑रीवः॒ कुह॒ कस्य॒ शर्म॒न्न् अम्भः॒ किम् आ॑सी॒द् गह॑नं गभी॒रम् ॥

     nā́sad āsīn nó sád āsīt tadā́nīṃ nā́sīd rájo nó vyòmā paró yát.
     kím ā́varīvaḥ kúha kásya śármann ámbhaḥ kím āsīd gáhanaṃ gabhīrám.

     Then was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.
     What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?

• Monier Williams (1899) “तदानीम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 434, column 3.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “तदानीम्”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 757
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “तदानीम्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 106
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “tadānīm”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 618