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    See also atyanta, atyantam, atyantaṃ.


    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 37, col. 2.
    atyaṃta a. [atikrāṃtaḥ aṃtaṃ sīmāṃ nāśaṃ]

    1 Excessive, much, very great or strong; °vairaṃ great enmity; °maitrī; °himotkirānilāḥ Ku. 5. 26.

    2 Complete, perfect, absolute; °abhāvaḥ absolute non-existence; See below.

    3 Endless, perpetual, permanent, everlasting, uninterrupted, unbroken; kiṃ vā tavātyaṃtaviyogamoghe hatajīvite R. 14. 65; bhavatyajaramatyaṃtaṃ Pt. 1. 151; °taṃ sukhamaśnute Ms. 5. 46; Bg. 6. 28; kasyātyaṃtaṃ sukhamupanataṃ Me. 109; nāyamatyaṃtasaṃvāso labhyate yena kenacit H. 4. 73.

    — taṃ ind.

    1 Exceedingly, excessively, very much, to the highest degree; sthāyībhavati cātyaṃtaṃ rāgaḥ śuklapaṭe yathā Pt. 1. 33; °śiśu Mu. 4. 14 very young.

    2 For ever, to the end (of life), through life; atyaṃtamātmasadṛśekṣaṇavallabhābhirāho nivatsyati Ś. 1. 27 for all time, in perpetuity; sā cātyaṃtamadarśanaṃ nayanayoryātā V. 4. 2.; oft in comp.; °gatā See below; priyamatyaṃtaviluptadarśanaṃ Ku. 4. 2 for ever lost to view; R. 14. 49.

    3 Absolutely, perfectly, completely.

    Comp.

    — abhāvaḥ absolute or complete non-existence, absolute non-entity, a thing which does not exist at any one of the three periods of time, or does not (pb) exist for all time; traikālikasaṃsargāvacchinnapratiyogikaḥ. (This is considered to be nitya or eternal and different from the other kinds of abhāva).

    — ga a. going or walking too much or too fast.

    — gata a. gone or departed for ever, gone never to return; kathamatyaṃtagatā na māṃ daheḥ R. 8. 56.

    2 always applicable, perfectly intimate or pertinent.

    — gatiḥ f.

    1 sense of ‘completely’; anatyaṃtagatau ktāt P. V. 4. 4.

    2 completion, accomplishment.

    — gāmin a.

    1 going or walking very much, going too fast or quickly.

    2 excessive, much.

    — nivṛttiḥ f. complete disappearance, absolute cessation.

    — vāsin m. [vas-ṇini] one who constantly stays with his preceptor, as a student.

    — saṃyogaḥ close proximity, uninterrupted continuity; kālādhvanoratyaṃtasaṃyoge P. II. 1. 29.

    2 Inseparable co-existence.

    — saṃparkaḥ excessive sexual intercourse.

    — sukumāra a. very tender. (

    — raḥ) a kind of grain.