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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 267, col. 2.
    abhivānyā Bahuvr. f. (-nyā) (ved.) A cow who (has lost

    her own calf and) suckles another; comp. abhivānyavatsā).

    The word occurs in the Mānava Kalpa Sūtras where it is

    rendered by Kumārila vivatsā, and twice in a quotation of

    Mādhava's Jaiminīyanyāyam. from a passage referring to

    the Mahāpitṛyajna: mahāpitṛyajña evaṃ śrūyate . pitṛbhyo'gni-

    ṣvāttebhyo'bhivānyāyai dugdhe manthamiti; when Mādhava says

    on one occasion: atra vatsarahitāyā abhivānyāśabdābhidhe-

    yāyā dhenvā dugdhe &c. and on another: mṛtavatsā dhenurabhi-

    vānyā &c.; but while all the Mss. of this work within my

    reach coincide in reading abhi°°, the corresponding pas-

    sage in Weber's ed. of Śatap. II. 6. 1. 6. runs: atha pitṛbhyo'gni-

    ṣvāttebhyaḥ . nivānyāyai dugdhe sakṛdupamathita ekaśalākayā mantho

    bhavati, and the E. I. H. Ms. 657 of Sāyaṇa's (Mādhava's)

    comm. of the Śatap. has also the reading nivānyā without

    any further remark. It is probable, however, that the

    quotation of the Jaiminīyanyāyam. belongs to a school of

    the black Yajurveda and that abhivānyā and the reading of

    the Śatapathabr. nivānyā are synonymous terms. Comp.

    abhivānyavatsā. E. doubtful, perhaps abhivā and anya.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 67, col. 1.
    abhivānyā abhi-vānyā or abhivānya-vatsā,

    f. (fr. abhivā, obtained?, and anya), Ved. a cow

    who suckles an adopted calf.

    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 138, col. 1.
    abhivānyā, abhivānyavatsā Ved. A cow suckling an adopted calf.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 69, col. 1.
    abhi-vānyā̂ [TBr.] or abhivānya-vatsā [AitBr.] (or apivānya-vatsā [Kauś.]), f. cow who suckles an adopted calf (cf. also ni-vānyā̂, &c.)
    ☞ p. 69, col. 2.
    abhi-vānyā̂ b. See abhi-√ van.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 184.
    abhivānyā, abhivānyavatsā Ved. A cow suckling an adopted calf.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 5, p. 1023.
    abhivānyā̂ f. (sc. go) = abhivānyavatsā TBR. 1, 6, 8, 4.

    — Vgl. nivānyavatsā .