appearance. In the two verses of the Bhāgav. Purāna (1.
12. 8.): dadarśa puruṣaṃ…. aṅguṣṭhamātramamalaṃ sphuratpuraṭamauli-
nam . apīvyadarśanaṃ śyāmaṃ taḍidvāsasamacyutam (comm. apī°
= atisundaraṃ dṛśyata iti darśanaṃ rūpaṃ yasya tam), and (3.
28. 17.) apīvyadarśanaṃ śaśvatsarvalokanamaskṛtam &c. (epithets of
Viṣṇu; comm. apī° = atisundaraṃ bhaktiviṣayaṃ darśanaṃ yasya),
the Bombay edition reads in the text as well as in the
comm. apīcyadarśanaṃ; but the scrupulous care which distin-
guishes Bournouf's edition of this Purāṇa leaves no doubt
that his reading apīvya° has been adopted on account of
better evidence; it is supported, too, by the quotation of
the latter verse, in the valuable dictionary of Rādhākānta-
deva. E. apīvya and darśana.