apvā

apvā f. (-pvā) (ved.) ¹ Disease. ² Danger (Yāska: vyādhirvā

bhayaṃ vā). ³ The throat (Uṇṇādikoṣa: …apvā tu strī

kaṇṭhadeśake). E. According to Yāska and Mahīdhara, a Tatpur.

of apa (with the loss of the final a) and vā, kṛt aff. ḍa,

‘because it removes happiness and life’; for the third

meaning the comm. of the Uṇnādik. gives the etym. āp

(shortened to ap, but see the etym. of apta), uṇ. aff. va

(which would correspond with the uṇ. aff. kvan of the Uṇ.

Sūtras). Neither etym. is very probable.

apvā apvā, f. (fr. apa or fr. obs. rt. ap?),

disease; danger; the region of the throat or neck.

apvā f. a kind of disease.

apvā́ (3; ápvā, Naigh.) f. ‘Impurity’, N.of a deity presiding over evacuation from fright, RV. x, 103, 12 (voc. apve), AV. ix, 8, 9 (acc. apvā́m).

apvā́ (NAIGH. 4, 3. und 5, 3: ápvā) f. N. einer Krankheit NIR. 6, 12. àmīṣā̂ṃ cìttaṃ prâtilòbhayântī gṛhā̀ṇāṅgā̂nyapvè parêhi ṚV. 10, 103, 12. hàrìmāṇâṃ tè aṅgêbhyò 'pvāmântàrodarā̂t . yàkṣmòvāmàntarā̀tmanô bàhirnirmântrayāmahe .. AV. 9, 8, 9.

apvā als Devatā Ind. St.3,203,a. Vgl. Ind. St.9,482.

(apvā́) , apuā́, f., eine Krankheit.

-e [V.] {929,12}.

(-uā́m AV. {9,8},9.)

apvā apúā f. eine best. Krankheit. Auch personif.

apvā , lies apuā́.

— apvī devī Ind. Stud. 17, 381 f.

Apvā. — A disease affecting the stomach,¹ possibly dysentery,

as suggested by Zimmer,² on the ground that the disease is

invoked to confound the enemy.³ Weber⁴ considers that it is

diarrhœa induced by fear, as often in the Epic.⁵ This view is

supported by Bloomfield,⁶ and was apparently that of Yāska.⁷ [Footnote] 1) Av. ix. 8, 9. [Footnote] 2) Altindisches Leben, 389. [Footnote] 3) Rv. x. 103, 12 = Av. iii. 2, 5 =

Sāmaveda, ii. 1211 = Vājasaneyi Saṃ-

hitā, xvii. 44. [Footnote] 4) Indische Studien, 9, 482; 17, 184. [Footnote] 5) Indische Studien, 17, 184. [Footnote] 6) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 327. [Footnote] 7) Nirukta, ix. 33.

Cf. Whitney, Translation of the

Atharvaveda, 86, 87.