apatyam

apatyam [na patanti 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 cā] Offspring, child, progeny, issue (of animals and men); offspring in general (male or female); sons or grandsons and other later generations of a Gotra; apatyaṃ pautraprabhṛtti gotram P.IV.1.162; apatyairiva nīvāra bhāgadheyo citairmṛmaiḥ R.1.50. (Bhavabhūti calls apatya 'a knot for tying parents together' anyonyasaṃśleṣaṇam pitroḥ; antaḥ- karaṇatattvasya dampatyoḥ snehasaṃśrayāt | ānandagranthireko'yamapatyamiti vadhyate || U.3.17). -2 A partronymic affix; strīpuṃsayorapatyāntāḥ Ak.; ˚adhikāraprakaraṇam Sk.; -Comp. -kāma a. desirous of progeny. -jīvaḥ N. of a plant (Mar. putrajīvī). -da a. giving offspring (as a Mantra &c.) -tā State of childhood; śūdrāvedī patati......tadapatyatayā bhṛgoḥ Ms.3.16. (-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 producing young). -2 a serpent. -sāc a. Ved. accompanied with offspring.