apacit

apacit 1 . apa-cit, Caus. P. A. -cetayati, -te,

or Ved. -citayati, -te, -yitum, to become faithless:

Desid. -cikitati, -te, to wish to leave or to abandon

any one.

2. apa-cit, t, f., Ved. a noxious flying insect.

apacit f. A noxious flying insect; that which causes decay.

1. apa-√ cit Caus. Ā. (Subj. -cetáyātai) to abandon, turn off from (abl.), VS. ii, 17 : Desid. -cikitsati, to wish to leave or to abandon any one (abl.), AV. xiii, 2, 15.

2. apa-cít f. a sore, boil, = apa-cī, fr. 2. apa-√ ci, AV.

apacit f. A noxious flying insect; that which causes decay.

apacít (von ci mit apa) f. N. eines schädlichen fliegenden Insects: ìtastā sarvā̂ naśyantu vā̀kā âpàcitā̂miva AV. 6, 25, 1. apâcitàḥ pra pâtata supàrṇo vâsàterîva 83, 1. 7, 75, 1. 77, 1.

apacit Z. 3 lies 7, 74, 1. 76, 2 st. 7, 75, 1. 77, 1.

apacít f. ein best. schädliches Insect.

apacít , vgl. JAOS 13, CCXVII ff.

apacit tri0 apa + ci—kvip . apacayakārake . “itastāḥ
sarvānaśyantu bādhakā apacitāmiva” atha0 6, 25, 1 .

Apa-cit. — This word occurs several times in the Atharvaveda.¹

It is held by Roth,² Zimmer,³ and others to denote an insect

whose sting produced swellings, etc. (glau). But Bloomfield⁴

shows that the disease, scrofulous swellings, is what is really

meant, as is shown by the rendering (gaṇḍa-mālā, ‘inflammation

of the glands of the neck’) of Keśava and Sāyaṇa, and by the

parallelism of the later disease, apacī, the derivation being from

apa and ci, ‘to pick off.’ [Footnote] 1) vi. 25, 1; 83, 1; vii. 75, 1; 77, 1. [Footnote] 2) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. [Footnote] 3) Altindisches Leben, 97. So also

Ludwig, Translation of the Rigveda,

, 342, 500. [Footnote] 4) American Journal of Philology, 11,

320 et seq.; Hymns of the Atharvaveda,

503, 504. Cf. Jolly, Medicin, 89;

Whitney, Translation of the Athar-

vaveda, 343.