savyá mf(A)n. (accord. to [Uṇ. iv, 109] fr. √ sū; perhaps for skavya cf. Gk., col. 3) left, left hand (am, éna, ā́, e, and ibc., ‘on the left’), [RV.] &c. &c.
opposite to left, right, right hand (am, ena, and ibc., ‘on the right’)
south, southern (am &c., ‘to the south’), [Sūryas.]; [VarBṛS.]
reverse, contrary, backward, [L.]
savyá m. the left arm or hand, [RV.]; [Br.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Yājñ.]
the left foot, [KātyŚr.]; [Gobh.]
one of the ten ways in which an eclipse takes place, [VarBṛS.]
a fire lighted at a person's death, [L.]
N. of Viṣṇu, [L.]
(sávya) N. of a man befriended by the Aśvins, [RV.]
of an Aṅgirasa and author of [RV. i, 51]-[57]; [Anukr.]
savyá n. (scil. yajñopavīta) the sacred thread worn over the left shoulder (acc. with √ kṛ, ‘to put the sacred thread over the left shoulder’), [KātyŚr.], Sch.
[accord. to some for skavya, cf. Gk. σκαιός ; Lat. scaevus; accord. to others for syavya cf. Slav. šujǐ].