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idāvatsara

i-dā—vatsará m. (originally perhaps) ‘the present or current year’

one of the names given to the single years of a period of five years

one of the five years in which gifts of clothes and food are productive of great rewards, [AV.]; [VS.]; [MaitrS.] &c. (idāvatsarīya, mfn. belonging to such a year Comm. on [Pāṇ.] idu-vatsara and id-vatsara = idā-vatsara above, id-vatsarīya = idāvatsarīya above.)