aparāhṇa

E. apara last, and ahṇa for ahan a day.

before sunset, e. g. atha yadūrdhvamaparāhlātprāgastamayātsa upa-

dravaḥ &c.; the fourth part of the day or three Muhūrtas

(= six Daṇḍas), if the day is divided into five equal parts,

(Mitākṣara: aparāhlaśca pañcadhāvibhakte dine caturtho bhāgastri-

muhūrtaḥ).--Besides the last definition Rādhākāntadeva al-

leges the following from vaidik and law texts: the last por-

tion of the day, if the latter is divided into two halves;

or the third portion of the day, if it is divided into three

parts, i. e. the last ten Daṇḍas, if the division is into thirty

Daṇḍas.--[The neuter gender of the word is given on the

only authority of the Gaṇa to Pāṇ. II. 4. 31. and on that of

the Gaṇaratnam., where it is also mentioned amongst the

ardharcādi; but the Sūtra of Pāṇ. II. 4. 29. would be an ex-

plicit authority against the correctness of the neuter gender

of this word, at least at Pāṇini's period; comp. also the in-

stances to V. 4. 88. and VIII. 4. 7.; and it may be observed,

too, that the restriction, as regards the Dwigu compounds

the latter part of which is rātri, as dvirātram, trirātram

(II. 4. 29. v. 1.), belongs to a Vārttika which neither occurs

in the Mahābhāṣya nor in the Kāśikā; comp. also the masc.

forms dvirātraḥ, trirātraḥ, Kāśikā to Pāṇ. V. 4. 87.] E. apara

(see I. 1. 3.) and ahna, a substitute of ahan (or as the Kā-

śikā explains: of aha, i. e. apara and ahan, samāsānta aff.

ṭac), with the change of n to ṇa.

m., n. 1. The afternoon, Man. 3, 255.

2. Evening, Chr. 34, 16.

m. (-hṇaḥ) Afternoon, the last watch of the day.

E. apara last, and
ahṇa for ahan a day.

— Vgl. mahāparāhṇa .