चन

Particle

 * 1) and not, also not, even not, not even

Usage notes
This particle is placed after the word to which it gives force.

A preceding verb is accentuated (Pāṇ. viii, 1, 57); in Vedic language it is generally, but not always, found without any other neg. particle, whereas in the later language another negative is usually added, e.g. āpaś canapra minanti vrataṃ vāṃ, ‘not even the waters violate your ordinance’, RV. ii, 24, 12; nāha vivyāca pṛthivī canainaṃ, ‘the earth even does not contain him’, iii, 36, 4; in classical Sanskrit it is only used after the interrogatives, , , , , , , and , making them indefinite.