apalāpin

E. apalāpa and ini aff.

cealing. E. lap with apa, kṛt aff. ṇini.

II. Deceiving, cheating; e. g. sādhāraṇasyāpalāpī ‘one

who cheats another out of their common property, viz. by

appropriating it to himself alone’; (in Yājnav. 2. 236.: Mi-

tākṣ. = sādhāraṇadravyasya vañcakaḥ. Stenzler in his valuable

edition of Yājn. renders these words, ‘one who conceals pu-

blic property’; but the meaning ‘vañcaka’ of the comm. does not

permit the word to be derived in this sense from apalap---

comp. apalāpayamāna and the meanings of lī in the caus.,

Pāṇ. I. 3. 70.--; moreover the Vivādachint. which quotes

the passage from Yājn., p. 98, explains the foregoing words

p. 99: anyasādhāraṇadhanamasādhāraṇīkṛtya gṛhlan, connecting

them logically with the offence named 2. 237., the latter part

of which verse the Vivādach. quotes: ‘eṣāmapatitānāṃ ca

tyāgī ca śatadaṇḍabhāk’, introducing however in the expla-

nation the word anyonyatyāgī which does not seem justified

by this reading). E. lī, in the caus., with apa, kṛt aff. ṇini.

mfn. (-pī-pinī-pi) One who denies or evades.

E. apalāpa and
ini aff.