abhīvarta

Ṛgv.: abhi tvā viśvabhūtānyabhīvarto yathāsasi (Sāy.: = abhitaḥ

sarvatra vartamāno bhavasi). ² Approaching, esp. with hostile

intent; e. g. Ṛgv.: abhīvartena haviṣā yenendro abhivāvṛte .

tenāsmānbrahmaṇaspate'bhi rāṣṭrāya vartaya (Sāyaṇa: abhīvartena =

abhigacchatā); or Atharv.: abhīvartena maṇinā yenendro abhi-

vāvṛdhe . tenā°°. Hence the word has become the epithet or

name of several vaidik verses or hymns which are recited

for obtaining victory; Benfey, in his valuable Index to the

Sāmaveda, mentions the following Sāma-verses which, in

the Gānas bear this name: 1. 242 (= 1. 3. 1. 5. 10), 2. 25. 26

(= II. 1. 1. 9), or only 2. 25b. 26a (= II. 1. 1. 9. 1b. 2a), 2. 35. 36

(= II. 1. 1. 13), 2. 117 (= II. 1. 2. 20. 1), 2. 161. 162 (= II. 2. 1. 13),

2. 206 (= 2. 2. 9. 1), 2. 214-216 (= II. 2. 2. 12), 2. 272 b. 273 a (= II.

3. 1. 11. 1 b. 2 a), 2. 283. 284 (= II. 3. 1. 15), 2 347 b. 348 a (= II. 3.

2. 12. 1 b. 2 a), 2. 429 a. 430 b (= II. 4. 1. 12. 1b. 2a), 2. 710-713 (= II.

6. 1. 5 and 6), 2. 741-743 (= II. 6. 2. 5), 2. 761. 762 (= II. 6. 2. 12),

2. 771. 772 (= II. 6. 2. 16), 2. 929. 930 (= II. 7. 3. 3), 2. 987. 988

(= II. 8. 1. 8); moreover indrasyābhīvartaḥ or prajāpaterabhīvartaḥ or

abhīvartasyāṅgirasasya bhāgam 1. 236 (= 1. 3. 1. 5. 4); jamadagnera-

bhīvartaḥ 1. 239 (= I. 3. 1. 5. 7) and 2. 771. 772 (see above);

vṛṣasya jñānasyābhīvartaḥ 1. 523 (= I. 6. 1. 4. 1); e. g. Maśaka-

Kalpa-Sūtr. (in the chapter on the Abhijit): pra soma deva-

vītaya ityabhīvartaḥ (i. e. Sāmav. 2. 117); or punānaḥ soma dhā-

rayetyabhīvartaḥ (i. e. 2. 25); also called Brahmasāman; e. g.

Mādh. Jaiminīyany.: gavāmayane brahmasāma vihitam . abhī-

varto brahmasāma bhavati.--It is the name, too, of Ṛgv. 10.

174.--In Vājas. 14. 23. the name is applied to a sacrificial

brick (iṣṭakā), when Mahīdhara explains abhīvarta as meaning

literally either ‘repetition’ or ‘approaching’, the former

assuming the sense stoma, since the Sāmaverses are re-

peated in a hymn of that description, and the latter the

meaning ‘year’, since the year (i. e. time) approaches all created

beings; he holds therefore that the brick is likened in this

passage to a hymn or to a year. (The vaidik glossary of

Someśvara explains the word in this manner: abhīvarto

bhūtabhedayātāyātanirūpaṇe . nānāsaṃsṛtisaṃsthānasvarūpāmnāya-

varṇane . divyeṣṭikātmanicayacayane'pi prakīrtitaḥ). E. vṛt

with abhi, kṛt aff. ghañ; the second vowel being protracted;

(this protraction is mentioned in the Prātiśākhyas).

1) adj. siegreich angreifend: àbhī̀vàrtenâ hàviṣā̀ yenendrô abhivāvṛ̀te . tenā̀smānbrâhmaṇaspatè 'bhi rā̀ṣṭrāyâ vartaya ṚV. 10, 174, 1. 3. Vgl. AV. 1, 29, 1.

— 2) m.

a) siegreicher Angriff, Sieg VS. 14, 23.

— b) das Lied ṚV. 10, 174, welches beim Angriff gesprochen wird: athainaṃ sārayamāṇamupāruhyābhīvartaṃ vācayati ĀŚV. GṚHY. 3, 12.

2)

b) N. verschiedener Sāman Ind. St.3,203,a. Desgleichen indrasyābhīvartaḥ 208,a. jamadagnerabhīvartaḥ 217,a. prajāpaterabhī° oder abhīvartasyāṅgirasasya 224,a. vṛṣasya jñānasyābhīvartaḥ 237,b.

-ás (bráhmaṇas pátis) {1000,3}.

-éna havíṣā {1000,1}.

— 1) Adj. Sieg verleihend.

— 2) m.

— a) siegreicher Angriff , Sieg.

— b) Name verschiedener Sāman , insbes. das Lied ṚV. 10,174. LĀṬY. 8,12,12. 10,8,6 ( °stātrīya).