(as south-east &c.). [The Siddhāntakaum. appears to assume
also a neuter apadiśa (-śam) ‘intermediate space of the
compass’, since it explains apadiśam as representing the
value of the instrum. or locative of apadiśa viz. ‘apadiśam .
apadiśena . apadiśam . apadiśe’; but the comm. on the
Amarak. I. 1. 2. 7. take the words ‘klīvāvyayam’ mentioned
there, expressly as meaning ‘Avyayībh.’ and as imparting
moreover to apa in apadiśam the meaning ‘in the middle of’.
Svāmin explains apadiśam as representing the value of a
case of diś (comp. Pāṇ. II. 1. 6), but Bhanūjid. refutes
him in contending that the word could not imply then the
notion of ‘in the middle of’: ‘diśoridamapadiśaṃ vibhaktyarthe
'vyayībhāva iti svāmī . tanna . saṃbandhamātrasya vibhaktyarthatve'pi
madhyasya tadarthatvābhāvāt’.--It seems unnecessary, however,
to create a new meaning of apa on account of this com-
pound, as apadiśam could well signify literally ‘away from
one region and another’ i. e. between both. For a similar
interpretation of apa comp. apasalavi.] E. apa and diś,
samās. aff. ṭac, or apa and diśā.