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kavya

kavyá mfn. (= kavi, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. v, 4, 30]) wise, [RV. x, 15, 9] (at, [VS. xxii, 2] read kavyā́ḥ)

a sacrificer, sacrificial priest, [RV. ix, 91, 2]

N. of a class of deities associated with Aṅgiras and Ṛkvan [[Gmn.]; a class of manes], [RV. x, 14, 3]; [AV.]

N. of one of the seven sages of the fourth Manv-antara, [Hariv.]

(am), n. (generally in connection with havya See havya-kavya) ‘what must be offered to the wise’, an oblation of food to deceased ancestors, [MBh.]; [Mn.]

Nom. P. kavyati, to be wise, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 39.]