aptu

1 The body.

2 A limb or member.

E. āpa to obtain, and tun Uṇādi aff.

⁴ A desired object, or object of desire (perhaps more cor-

rectly: attainment, scil. of a desired object). ⁵ Possessing,

comprising. [The two first meanings are two various inter-

pretations of the word in Vājas. 5. 35. or Śatap. III. 6. 3. 8.:

juṣāṇo apturājyasya vetu (quoted also by the Kāśikā on Pāṇ.

VI. 1. 118.), viz. Śayaṇa: aptuḥ sūkṣmarūpaḥ somaḥ, or Mahīdh.:

aptuścātra somaḥ . āpnoti pītaḥ sañcharīram i. e. ‘Soma, be-

cause it comes into the body’; and Nṛsinha in the Swara-

mañjarī: apturyajñiyaḥ paśuḥ (probably as connected with

aptas); the third meaning is that given by -Bhaṭṭojid. on

the Uṇ. Sūtra 1. 74. (perhaps because body is pervaded by

Soma); the fourth meaning results from Bhaṭṭoj.'s Prauḍham.

but belongs apparently to the word only in aptoryāma q. v.

where it would have also the fifth meaning, according to a

passage from the Śatap. quoted s. v. aptoryāma; in either

of the last two meanings aptoḥ represents probably the

abl. of the abstract noun in -tu which in the Vedas often

assumes the function of our infinitive, expressed in the

classical idiom by the accus. -tum, aptos being thus equal

in value to the classical āptum.] E. āp with shortened

ā (accord. to the native etym., but more correctly ap,

comp. the etym. of apta), uṇ. aff. tu.

m. (-ptuḥ)

1. The body.

2. A limb or member.

E. āpa to obtain, and
tun Unādi aff.

1) adj. geschäftig, eifrig, ämsig: aptave (vom Soma) ŚAT. BR. 3, 6, 3, 8. Vielleicht eine Verstümmelung von aptur .

— 2) m. Körper Uṇ. 1, 74. Vgl. apu .

1) nach dem Comm. fein, dünn, zart. TS. 6, 3, 2, 1, 2.

— 1) Adj. federleicht , winzig MAITR. S. 3,9,1.

— 2) m. Körper.