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    apavāha

    See also apavāhaḥ.

    Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 45.
    apavāha m. (-haḥ) An inference or deduction.

    E. apa before vaha to bear, ghañ aff.

    Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 36, col. 1.
    apa-vāha (haḥ) 1. m. An inference.

    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 177, col. 1.
    apavāha Tatpur. 1. m. (-haḥ) 1 (In Arithmetic.) Deduction,

    lessening, subtraction; esp. of fractions; see bhāgāpavāha,

    lavāpavāha; e. g. svāṃśādhikonaḥ khalu yatra tatra bhāgānubandhe ca

    lavāpavāhe . talasthahāreṇa haraṃ nihanyātsvāṃśādhikonena tu tena

    bhāgān, ‘but, if indeed the quantity be increased or di-

    minished by a part of itself, then in the addition and sub-

    traction of fractions, multiply the denominator by the de-

    nominator standing underneath and the numerator by the

    same augmented or lessened by its own numerator (comp.

    Colebr. Alg. p. 15 and the following). 2 The name of

    a metre regulated by number and quantity, a variety of

    Utkṛti; it consists of a stanza of four lines with the fol-

    lowing twenty six syllables in each line:

    ¯¯¯˘˘˘˘˘˘ । ˘˘˘˘˘˘ । ˘˘˘˘˘˘ । ˘˘¯¯¯.

    2. m. pl. (-hāḥ) The name of a country or people;

    also read upavāha or pravāha. E. vah with apa, kṛt aff. ghañ.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 52, col. 3.
    Apa-vāha, as, m. or apa-vāhaṅa, am, n. de-

    duction, subtraction (of fractions); N. of a metre;

    N. of a people.

    .Apa-vāhya, as, ā, am, to be carried away.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 52, col. 1.
    apa-vāhá m. ‘carrying off (water)’, a channel, TS.
    ☞ p. 52, col. 1.
    ‘carrying off’, see vasiṣṭhāpavāha, deduction, subtraction
    ☞ p. 52, col. 1.
    N. of a metre
    ☞ p. 52, col. 1.
    of a people.

    Śabdasāgara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 38, col. 1.
    apavāha

    m. (-haḥ) An inference or deduction.

    E. apa before, vaha to bear,
    ghañ aff.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 293.
    apavāha (von vah mit apa) m.

    1) Name eines Metrums (4 Mal ¯ ¯ ¯ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘, ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘, ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘, ˘ ˘ ¯ ¯ ¯) COLEBR. Misc. Ess. II, 164. (XXI, 2).

    — 2) N. eines Volkes VP. 188.

    ☞ vol. 5, p. 1008.
    apavāha Abfluss: àpàvā̀hatô 'pām TS. 6, 6, 5, 4. Wegführung: bhūtapūrvamabhūtapūrvaṃ vā janapadaṃ paradeśāpavāhena svadeśābhisyandavamanena vā niveśayet KAUṬILYA bei MALLIN. zu KUMĀRAS. 6, 37; vgl. apavāhana. vasiṣṭhasyāpavāhaḥ oder vasiṣṭhāpavāhaḥ N. einer Oertlichkeit an der Sarasvatī. der Ort. von wo dieser Fluss den Vasiṣṭha wegführte um ihn dem Zorn Viśvāmitra's zu entziehen, MBH. 9, 2357. fg. 2398.

    — 1) = apavāhaka Ind. St. 8, 405.

    — 2) MBH. 6, 352. vāravāsyāyavāhāśca st. vārapāśyāpavāhāśca ed. Bomb.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 73, col. 3.
    apavāhá m.

    — 1) Abfluss. apavāhatás auf der Seite des Abflusses.

    — 2) Wegführung. vasiṣṭhasya oder vasiṣṭhāya° N.pr. einer Oertlichkeit.

    — 3) Abnahme , Verminderung.

    — 4) ein best. metrum.

    — 5) Pl. N.pr. eines Volkes.

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 237, col. 1.
    apavāha pu0 apasāryya vāhaḥ sthānāntaranayanam . itara-
    sthānādapasāryya sthānāntaraprāpaṇe . “bhūtapūrvvamabhūtapūrvvaṃ vā
    janapadaṃ paradeśāpavāhena svadeśābhiṣyandavamanena vā nive-
    śayediti” kauṭilyaḥ “monāḥ baṭ giti navarasaśarayatiyu-
    tamapavāhākhyamiti” vṛ0 ra0 ukte varṇṇavṛttabhede .

    Indian Epigraphical Glossary

    ☞ p. 25.
    apavāha (CII 1), the act of carrying away [as a prisoner].