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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 225, col. 1.
    apsuvāh Tatpur. m. (-ṭ) (ved.) Driving in the intermediate

    region, in the region between heaven and earth, an epithet

    of the horses of Indra; (this would seem the natural inter-

    pretation of this word in Sāmav. 1. 341. = I. 4. 1. 5. 10.; Sā-

    yaṇa renders it however ‘driving on account of water’,

    i. e. ‘precipitating the waters’: apsu nimittabhūtāsu ye vahanti

    te'psuvāhaḥ . udakasya pātayitāraḥ . tān &c.; comp. the

    explanation of apsujit). E. apsu (loc. plur. of ap) and

    vāh (vah, kṛt aff. ṇvi).

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 322.
    apsuvā́h (apsu + vāh) adj. im Wasser fahrend, vom Pferde SV. I, 4, 1, 5, 10.