antarvat

terior, e. g. of a hall, a house, ghaṭaḥ ‘a jar in the interior

of a hall’; antarvatī śālā ‘a hall in the interior of another

hall’. ² Probably the same as ātmavat (comp. the mean-

ing of antar IV. 2.), selfpossessed, composed, as in the

vaidik instance pumānantarvāntsthaviraḥ payasvānvasoḥ kabandhamṛ-

ṣabho bibharti; (it has been proposed somewhere to translate

antarvat in this instance ‘pregnant’).

2. f. (-tnī; in the Vedas also -vatī) A pregnant woman.

[As the instance antarvatī śālā has been taken from the

Kāśikā on Pāṇ. IV. 1. 32, it is necessary to observe that

Bhaṭṭojidīkṣsta in the Prauḍhamanor. rejects this forma-

tion together with the counter-instance pativatī in the same

rule: ‘yattu prācāntarvatī pativatīti pratyudāhṛtaṃ tadayuktam’.]

E. antar, taddh. aff. matup and āgama nuk.

-atīs [N.] {917,6}.

-atīs [A.] {289,5}.