abhivyādāna

pressed sound; viz. such a long vowel ā, separated from

a preceding ā by a hiatus, as becomes wrongly absorbed

by the protracting beyond the legitimate measure of such a

preceding ā; as if in the pronunciation of tā āpaḥ, avasā

ā, yā āpaḥ, tā ā (in verses of the Ṛgveda), the

speaker commits the fault of allowing the final ā of tā,

avasā, yā to absorb, by unduly protracting it, the be-

ginning ā of āpaḥ and ā. [In the Ṛk-Prātiś.-Sūtra

abhivyādānaṃ ca vivṛttipūrve kaṇṭhye tā āpo'vasā eti

dīrghe it would seem more natural to look upon abhivyādāna

as a Tatpur. and render it ‘absorption’; but as vyādāna

means ‘enouncing, pronouncing’ and as a negative value

of abhi is but seldom admissible in a Tatpur., it appears

better to adopt Uvaṭa's comment which represents the

word as a Bahuvr. and supplies akṣara, viz.: ādānamārambhaḥ .

vividhaṃ vipulaṃ viśālaṃ vādānamathavādānameva vyādānam . kena-

cidabhivyāptamabhibhūtaṃ vā vyādānaṃ tasya tadidamabhivyādānaṃ bhava-

tyakṣaram; and since the condition of this defect of pronun-

ciation is the meeting of two ā, there seems equally no

choice left but to adopt the elliptical interpretation of this

comm., as regards vivṛttipūrve kaṇṭhye dīrghe, which words he

renders as neuters in the dual accus., for in giving them

the apparently more natural value of a locat. sing. the rule

would not necessarily imply the meeting of two long vowels

ā.] E. abhi and vyādāna, scil. akṣara.