apatyaṃ

apatyaṃ [na pataṃti pitaro'nena, pat bāhu° karaṇe yat, na. ta. ; some derive it from apa, the termination tya being added to it, as in tatratya, atratya, sprung from a stock; Yāska gives two etymologies: apatyaṃ kasmāt apatataṃ bhavati pituḥ sakāśādetya pṛthagiva tataṃ bhavati, anena jātena satā pitā narake na patatīti vā]

1 Offspring, child, progeny, issue (of animals and men); offspring in general (male (pb) or female); sons or grandsons and other later generations of a Gotra; apatyaṃ pautraprabhṛti gotraṃ P. IV. 1. 162; apatyairiva nīvārabhāgadheyocitairmṛgaiḥ R. 1. 50. (Bhavabhūti calls an apatya ‘a knot for tying parents together’ anyonyasaṃśleṣaṇaṃpitroḥ; aṃtaḥkaraṇatattvasya daṃpatyoḥ snehasaṃśrayāt . ānaṃdagraṃthirekoyamapatyamiti badhyate .. U. 3. 17).

2 A patronymic affix; strīpuṃsayorapatyāṃtāḥ Ak.; °adhikāraprakaraṇaṃ Sk.

Comp.

— kāma a. desirous of progeny.

— jīvaḥ N. of a plant.

— da a. giving offspring (as a Mantra &c.). (

— dā) N. of a plant (garbhadātrīvṛkṣa).

— pathaḥ the vulva.

— pratyayaḥ a patronymic affix.

— vikrayin m. a seller of his children, a father who sells his girl for money to a bridegroom.

— śatruḥ [apatyaṃ śatrurgarbhabhedanena nāśakaṃ yasyāḥ sā]

1 ‘having the child for its enemy’, a crab (said to die in proḍucing young).

2 a serpent.

— sāc a. Ved. accompanied with offspring.

apatyaṃ , klī, (na patati vaṃśo yasmāt, pata + bāhu-
lyāt yat, tato nañsamāsaḥ .) puttraḥ . kanyā .
tatparyyāyaḥ . 2 santānaḥ . 3 tokaṃ . 4 santatiḥ .
5 prasūtiḥ . iti jaṭādharaḥ .
(“asmiṃstu nirguṇaṃ gotre nāpatyamupajāyate”) .
iti hitopadeśe .
“mahībhṛtaḥ putravato'pi dṛṣṭiṃ
tasminnapatye na jagāma tṛptiṃ” .
iti kumārasambhave .)