Sanskrit अनुबन्ध (anubandha), from अनु- (anu-, “after”) + बन्ध (bandha, “binding”)
anubandha (plural anubandhas)
- (Sanskrit grammar) Characters added before or after a Sanskrit stem (or other morpheme), used as marker to convey a grammatical operation such as accentuation or substitution, and dropped once the word is fully formed.