vaidik epithet or name of Agni (see the explanation given
s. v. apānnapāt); but Sāyaṇa distinguishes on one occasion
the sacrificial fire from the apānnaptṛ whom he then calls the
Fire of the lightning as being the son of the rain-waters.
Comp. ap and aponaptṛ. [In the vaidik hymns this word does
not occur as a compound; but that it must have been con-
sidered as such in the ritual literature results from the deri-
vatives apānnaptriya and apānnaptrīya. Patanjali in his com-
ment on the latter forms (Pāṇ. IV. 2. 28.) denies the correct-
ness of a combination apāṃnaptṛ and assumes that the ending
ṛ of the latter word merely exists before the affixes in
question, while otherwise the word would be apānnapāt;
Kaiyyaṭa, however, admits of such a combination in the
Vedas. Mahābhāṣya to Pāṇ. IV. 2. 28.: atha yadaponaptriya-
mapāṃnaptriyaṃ vā haviḥ . kathaṃ tasya praiṣaḥ kartavyaḥ . aponapāte
'nubrūhi . apāṃnapāte'nubrūhi . aponaptrapāṃnaptṛbhāvaḥ (the Ms.
of the E. I. H. No. 330 reads wrongly aponaptṛpāṃnabhāvaḥ)
kasmānna bhavati . pratyayasaṃniyogena ṛkārāntatvamucyate . tenā-
sati pratyaye na bhavitavyam ..; but Kaiyyaṭa: atheti . vede kva-
cidaponaptre svāheti ṛkārāntaḥ prayogo dṛśayate . kvacidapo-
napāditi takārāntaḥ prayoga iti praśnaḥ . pratyayasaṃniyogeneti .
vede tu cchāndasatvātkvacidṛkārāntayogaḥ (the Ms.: chāndasatvā-
tkaccidṛkārāntayogaḥ).] E. apām (gen. plur. of ap) and naptṛ.