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    See also apasada.


    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 113, col. 2.
    apasadaḥ [apakṛṣṭo nīca iva sīdati, sad-ac]

    1 An outcast, a low man; usually at the end of comp. in the sense of ‘vile,’ ‘wretched’ ‘accursed’; kāpālika° Māl. 5; re re kṣatriyāpasadāḥ Ve. 3; nara°, brāhmaṇa° &c.

    2 N. for the children of six degrading connections, i. e. of men of the first three castes with women of the castes inferior to their own; viprasya triṣu varṇeṣu nṛpatervarṇayordvayoḥ . vaiśyasya varṇe caikasmin ṣaḍete'pasadāḥ smṛtāḥ .. Ms. 10. 10.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    vol. 1, p. 150.
    apasadaḥ [apakṛṣṭo nīca iva sīdati, sada-ac] 1 An outcast, a low man; usually at the end of comp. in the sense of 'vile', 'wretched', 'accursed'; kāpālika˚ Māl.5; re re kṣatriyāpasadāḥ Ve.3; nara˚, brāhmaṇa˚ &c. -2 N. for the children of six degrading connections, i. e. of men of the first three castes with women of the castes inferior to their own; viprasya triṣu varṇeṣu nṛpatervarṇayordvayoḥ | vaiśyasya varṇe caikasmin ṣaḍete'pasadāḥ smṛtāḥ || Ms.10.10. See apadhvaṃsaḥ. -3 pratilomajaḥ contrary to anulomajaḥ (paravarṇāsu anulomajāḥ ṣaḍa- padhvaṃsajāḥ vilomajā apasadāḥ ṣaḍiti jñeyam) cf. Mb.13.49.6-8.

    Śabdakalpadruma

    vol. 1, p. 66.
    apasadaḥ , puṃ, (apasīdati apakṛṣṭatvaṃ prāpnoti,
    apa + sad + pacādyac .) nīcaḥ . itaralokaḥ .
    itthamaraḥ ..
    (viprasya triṣu varṇeṣu nṛpatervarṇayordvayoḥ .
    vaiśyasya varṇe caikasmin ṣaḍete'pasadāḥ smṛtāḥ ..
    iti manūkte anulomavarṇastrījāte varṇasaṅkarabhede
    mūrddhāvasiktādau puṃ strīṃ .)