See also apaharttṛ.
away, carries off, removes. 2 One who steals. 3 One who
conceals or secretes; e. g. nikṣepasyāpahartāram (comm. = ni-
kṣepasyāpahnotāram).
2. m. (-rtā) The name of a brother of the serpent Śeṣa
(according to the Harivanśa in the translation of Langlois
vol. II. p. 481). E. hṛ with apa, kṛt aff. tṛc or tṛn. [N. B.
When derived with the kṛt tṛc, the word merely expresses
the notion of the agens in general, as is the case with all
other derivatives of radicals by means of tṛc; a noun de-
pending on it then stands in the genitive, e. g. nikṣepasyāpa-
hartā ‘a man who secretes a deposit’. But when derived
by means of the affix tṛn it implies moreover habit and, a
noun depending on it in this sense stands in the accus., e. g.
annamapahartāra āhvarakā bhavanti śrāddhe siddhe sati ‘the in-
habitants of Ahwara are in the habit of carrying off the food
after the funeral oblation is performed’; it might seem doubt-
ful, therefore, whether e. g. the passage of the Dāyabhāga
p. 351, line 18: asuvarṇaṃ suvarṇabuddhyāpaharturna suvarṇāpahāraḥ is
correct and ought not to be asuvarṇasya &c., the word apahartṛ
expressing there simply the agens without an additional
notion, as results from the comparison of these words with
p. 350. 1. 16. The word when derived by kṛt tṛc is udātta
on the last syllable; but when derived by tṛn udātta on the
first syllable.]
m., f. trī, n. 1. One who takes away, a
thief, Man. 9, 275. 2. One who with-
holds another's property, Man. 8, 190.
3. Removing, expiating, Man. 11, 161.