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apas

ápas n. (fr. áp), work, action, especially sacred act, sacrificial act, [RV.][Lat. opus.]

apás mfn. active, skilful in any art, [RV.]

apás (ásas), f. pl. N. of the hands and fingers (when employed in kindling the sacred fire and in performing the sacrifices), [RV.]

of the three goddesses of sacred speech, [RV.]; [VS.]

of the active or running waters, [RV.]; [AV.]

apás mfn. (fr. 2. áp), watery. (So some passages of the Ṛg-veda [[i, 95, 4], &c.] may (according to [NBD.] and others) be translated where the word is applied to the running waters See 2. apás at end and apás-tama.)