abhisvar

economiastic song; e. g. Ṛgv.: abhisvarā niṣadā gā ava-

syava indre hinvānā draviṇānyāśata (Sāyaṇa: abhisvarā .

abhitaḥ svaraḥ svaraṇaṃ śabdanaṃ yasya tena stotreṇa); or Sāmav.,

Ṛgv.: nemiṃ namanti cakṣasā meṣaṃ viprā abhisvare (Sāyaṇa:

abhisvare abhisvaraṇāya stotrāya; Ṛgv. v. l.: abhisvarā).

² Invocation, the calling near, the urging to one's presence;

e. g. Ṛgv., Sāmav.: sthātā rathasya haryorabhisvara indro dṛhḻā

cidārujaḥ (Sāy.: haryoraśvayorabhisvare'smadābhimukhyena preraṇe

nimittabhūte sati i. e. the calling his horses towards us being

the motive of Indra's mounting his chariot, or ‘he mounts

his chariot for the purpose (dative) of urging the horses to

our presence’). [The Ṛgv. Prātiś. notices the unchanged

condition of s in this compound.] E. svṛ with abhi, kṛt

aff. vic. (The first explanation of Sāyaṇa which appa-

rently represents the word as a Bahuvr. n. of abhi and

svar can be scarcely correct, since abhisvar is udātta on the

last syllable; his subsequent gloss is therefore preferable;

the dative abhisvare is udātta on the last syllable according

to Pāṇ. VI. 1. 168. and need not be referred, therefore, to

a base abhisvara for which there is no authority.)

-árā [I.] {212,5}; {706,12}.