yadi : yádi ind. (in Veda also yádī, sometimes yadi cit, yadi ha vai, yádī́t, yády u, yady u vai) if, in case that, [RV.] &c. &c. In the earlier language may be joined with Indic. Subj. or Leṭ Pot., or Fut., the consequent clause of the conditional sentence being generally without any particle. In the later language may be joined with Pres. (followed in consequent clause by another Pres., e.g. yadi jīvati bhadrāṇi paśyati, ‘if he lives he beholds prosperity’, or by fut. or by Impv. or by Pot. or by no verb) ; or it may be joined with Pot. (e.g. yadi rājā daṇḍaṃ na praṇayet, ‘if the king were not to inflict punishment’, followed by another Pot. or by Cond. or by Pres. or by Impv. or by fut. or by no verb); or it may be joined with fut. (e.g. yadi na kariṣyanti tat, ‘if they will not do that’, followed by another fut. or by Pres. or by Impv. or by no verb); or it may be joined with Cond. (e.g. yady anujñām adāsyat, ‘if he should give permission’, followed by another Cond. or by Pot. or by aor.); or it may be joined with aor. (e.g. yadi prajā-patir na vapur arsrākṣīt, ‘if the Creator had not created the body’, followed by Cond. or by Pot. or by pf.); or it may be joined with Impv. or even with pf. (e.g. yady āha, ‘if he had said’). There may be other constructions, and in the consequent clauses some one of the following may be used: atha, atra, tad, tena, tatas, tataḥ param, tadā, tarhi, tadānīm. Observe that may sometimes = ‘as sure as’ (esp. in asseverations, followed by Impv. with or without tathā or tena or followed by Pot. with tad), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; or it may = ‘whether’ (followed by Pres. or Pot. or no verb, e.g. yadi-na vā, ‘whether-or not’, and sometimes kim is added), [ib.]; or it may = ‘that’ (after verbs of ‘not believing’ or ‘doubting’, with Pres. or Pot., e.g. nāśaṃse yadi jīvanti, ‘I do not expect that they are alive’, cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 147], Sch.); or if placed after duṣkaraṃ or kathaṃ cid it may = ‘hardly’, ‘scarcely’, [MBh.]; [R.]; or it may = ‘if perchance’, ‘perhaps’ (with Pot. with or without iti, or with fut. or pres.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. The following are other combinations: yadi tāvat, ‘how would it be if’ (with Pres. or Impv.)

yadi : yadi nāma, ‘if ever’

yadi : yadi cet (cet being added redundantly) = ‘if’ (e.g. yadi cet syāt, ‘if it should be’)

yadi : purā yadi = ‘before’ (e.g. purā yadi paśyāmi, ‘before that I see’)

yadi : yády ápi (rarely api yadi), ‘even if’, ‘although’ (followed by tathāpi or tad api or sometimes by no particle in the correlative clause)

yadi : — yadi ca-yady api, ‘if — and if — if also’

yadi : yádi — yádi-vā, or yádi vā — yádi vā, or yádi vā — yádi, or yadi vā — vā, or vā — yadi vā, or yad vā — yadi vā, ‘if — or if’, ‘whether — or’

yadi : yádi vā — ná vā, ‘whether — or not’

yadi : vā — yadi vā — yadi vā-tathāpi, ‘whether — or — or — yet’

yadi : vā yadi = ‘or if’, ‘or rather’

yadi : yadi vā id. or = ‘yet’, ‘however’.

ghṛta : ghṛtá mfn. sprinkled, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá n. (g. ardharcādi) ghee i.e. clarified butter or butter which has been boiled gently and allowed to cool (it is used for culinary and religious purposes and is highly esteemed by the Hindūs), fat (as an emblem of fertility), fluid grease, cream, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] &c.

ghṛta : (= udaka) fertilizing rain (considered as the fat which drops from heaven), water, [Naigh. i, 12]; [Nir. vii, 24]

ghṛta : ghṛtá m. N. of a son of Dharma (grandson of Anu and father of Duduha), [Hariv. 1840]

ghṛta : mfn. ([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 37], [Kāś.]) illumined, [L.]

ghṛta : ghṛtá See √ 1. and √ 2. ghṛ.

hu : cl. 3. P. ([Dhātup. xxv, 1]) juhóti (Ved. and ep. also Ā. juhuté; 3. pl. pr. júhvati, °te, [RV.] &c.; 2. sg. Impv. juhudhí, [Br.] &c.; hoṣi, [RV.]; p. P. júhvat; Ā. júhvāna [also with pass. sense]; 3. pl. impf. ájuhavuḥ, [ib.]; pf. P. juhāva, juhuvuḥ, [MBh.]; Ā. juhuve, [R.]; juhvé, juhuré, [RV.]; juhvire, [Br.]; juhavāṃ-cakāra, [ib.]; [Up.]; juhavām-āsa, [Vop.]; aor. ahauṣīt, [Br.] &c.; Prec. hūyāt Gr.; fut. hotā, [ib.]; hoṣyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; Cond. ahoṣyat, [Br.]; inf. hótum, °tos, °tavaí, and ind.p. hutvā, [ib.] &c.), to sacrifice (esp. pour butter into the fire), offer or present an oblation (acc. or gen.) to (dat.) or in (loc.), sacrifice to, worship or honour (acc.) with (instr.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to sprinkle on (loc.), [Yājñ.]; to eat, [Vop.] : Pass. hūyáte (aor. áhāvi), to be offered or sacrificed, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. hāvayati (aor. ajūhavat), to cause to sacrifice or to be sacrificed or to be honoured with sacrifice, [GṛŚrS.] &c.: Desid. juhūṣati, to wish to sacrifice, [MBh.]; [R.] : Intens. johavīti (impf. ajohavīt or ajuhavīt, [BhP.]), johūyate, johoti (Gr.), to offer oblations repeatedly or abundantly.

hu : [cf. Gk. χυ- in χέω (for χέϝω), χυλός, χυμός; Lat. fūtis, ‘water-pot’.]

hu : ind. an exclamation in huṃ hu, hūṃ hu &c., [Sarasv.]

vāśī : vā́śī f. (also written vāsī; accord. to some connected with √ vraśc) a sharp or pointed knife or a kind of axe, adze, chisel (esp. as the weapon of Agni or the Maruts, and the instrument of the Ṛbhus, while the paraśu or axe is that of Tvaṣṭṛ), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]

vāśī : sound, voice, [Naigh.] (cf. under 1. vāśa).

agni : agní m. (√ ag, [Uṇ.]) fire, sacrificial fire (of three kinds, Gārhapatya, Āhavanīya, and Dakṣiṇa)

agni : the number three, [Sūryas.]

agni : the god of fire, the fire of the stomach, digestive faculty, gastric fluid

agni : bile, [L.]

agni : gold, [L.]

agni : N. of various plants Semecarpus Anacardium, [Suśr.], Plumbago Zeylanica and Rosea, Citrus Acida

agni : mystical substitute for the letter r

agni : in the Kātantra grammar N. of noun-stems ending in i and u

agni : (also) = next, [ĀpŚr.]

agni : [cf. Lat. ignì-s; Lith. ugni-s; Slav. ognj].

bhṛ : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 1]) bhárati, °te; cl. 3. P. Ā. ([xxv, 5]) bíbharti (bibhárti only, [RV. iv, 50, 7]), bibhṛte; cl. 2. P. bhárti, [RV. i, 173, 6.] (p. P. bíbhrat, q.v.; Ā. bibhrāṇa with act. meaning, [Ragh.], bibhramāṇa with pass. meaning, [RV.]; pf. jabhā́ra, jabhárat; jabhre, ajabhartana, [ib.]; babhāra, babhṛma, [Br.] &c.; p. babhrāṇá with pass. meaning, [RV.]; bibharāmbabhūva, [Ragh.], °rām-āsa, [Bhaṭṭ.]; aor. abhār, [RV.]; bhartám, bhṛtám, [Br.]; abhṛta Gr.; abhārṣam Subj. bharṣat, [RV.]; abhāriṣam, [AV.]; Prec. bhriyāsam, °yāt, [Br.]; fut. bhariṣyati cond. ábhariṣyat, [RV.]; bhartā́, [ŚBr.]; inf. bhártum, bhártave, bhártavaí, Ved.; bháradhyai, [RV.]; ind.p. -bhṛ́tya, [ib.] &c.), to bear, carry, convey, hold (‘on’ or ‘in’ loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wear i.e. let grow (hair, beard, nails), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to balance, hold in equipoise (as a pair of scales), [Viṣṇ.]; to bear i.e. contain, possess, have, keep (also ‘keep in mind’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to support, maintain, cherish, foster, [ib.]; to hire, pay, [MBh.]; to carry off or along (Ā. bharate, ‘for one's self’ i.e. gain, obtain, or = ferri ‘to be borne along’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to bring, offer, procure, grant, bestow, [RV.] &c. &c.; to endure, experience, suffer, undergo, [ib.]; to lift up, raise (the voice or a sound; Ā. bharate, also ‘to rise, be heard’), [RV.]; to fill (the stomach), [Pañcat.]; (with garbham) to conceive, become pregnant (cf. under √ dhṛ), [RV.]; (with kṣitim) to take care of, rule, govern, [Rājat.]; (with, ājñām) to submit to, obey, [ib.]; (with ūrjām) to exert, employ, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Pass. bhriyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. abhāri), to be borne &c., [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. bhārayati (aor. abībharat), to cause to bear &c.; to engage for hire, [MBh.] : Desid. búbhūrṣati ([ŚBr.]; [MārkP.]), bibhariṣati ([Pāṇ. viii, 2, 49]), to wish to bear or support or maintain: Intens. báribharti (3. pl. °bhrati, [RV.], where also 2. du. jarbhṛtáḥ), barībharti ([Kāv.]), to bear repeatedly or continually, carry hither and thither.

bhṛ : [cf. Zd. bar; Gk. ϕέρω; Lat. fero; Slav. brati; Goth. baíran; Germ. beran, ge-bären; Eng. bear.]

bhṛ : (1. See p. 764, col. 3), in comp. for bhrū.

ut : ind. a particle of doubt or deliberation (= 2. uta, q.v.), [L.]

ut : (for the prep. ud See 1. ud.)

ud : a particle and prefix to verbs and nouns. (As implying superiority in place, rank, station, or power) up, upwards

ud : upon, on

ud : over, above. (As implying separation and disjunction) out, out of, from, off, away from, apart. (According to native authorities may also imply publicity, pride, indisposition, weakness, helplessness, binding, loosing, existence, acquisition.) is not used as a separable adverb or preposition

ud : in those rare cases, in which it appears in the Veda uncompounded with a verb, the latter has to be supplied from the context (e.g. úd útsam śatádhāram, [AV. iii, 24, 4], out (pour) a fountain of a hundred streams). is sometimes repeated in the Veda to fill out the verse, [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6] (kiṃ na ud ud u harṣase dātavā u, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ.])

ud : , [cf. Zend uz; Hib. uas and in composition os, ois, e.g. os-car, ‘a leap, bound’, &c. See also uttamá, 1. úttara, &c.]

ud : or und cl. 7. P. unátti ([RV. v, 85, 4]) : cl. 6. P. undati (p. undát, [RV. ii, 3, 2] : Impv. 3. pl. undantu, [AV. vi, 68, 1]; [2]) Ā. undáte ([AV. v, 19, 4]; undāṃ cakāra, undiṣyati &c., [Dhātup. xxix, 20]) to flow or issue out, spring (as water); to wet, bathe, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [PārGṛ.] &c.: Caus. (aor. aundidat, [Vop. xviii, 1]) : Desid. undidiṣati, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 3]; [cf. Gk. ὕδωρ; Lat. unda; Goth. vat-o; Old High Germ. waz-ar; Mod. Eng. wat-er; Lith. wand-ū́.]

ca : the 20th letter of the alphabet, 1st of the 2nd (or palatal) class of consonants, having the sound of ch in church.

ca : ind. and, both, also, moreover, as well as (= τε, Lat. que, placed like these particles as an enclitic after the word which it connects with what precedes; when used with a personal pronoun this must appear in its fuller accented form (e.g. táva ca máma ca [not te ca me ca], ‘both of thee and me’), when used after verbs the first of them is accented, [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 58 f.]; it connects whole sentences as well as parts of sentences; in [RV.] the double occurs more frequently than the single (e.g. aháṃ ca tváṃ ca, ‘I and thou’, [viii, 62, 11]); the double may also be used somewhat redundantly in class. Sanskṛt (e.g. kva hariṇakānāṃ jīvitaṃ cātilolaṃ kva ca vajra-sārāḥ śarās te, ‘where is the frail existence, of fawns and where are thy adamantine arrows?’, [Śak. i, 10]); in later literature, however, the first is more usually omitted (e.g. ahaṃ tvaṃ ca), and when more than two things are enumerated only one is often found (e.g. tejasā yaśasā lakṣmyā sthityā ca parayā, ‘in glory, in fame, in beauty, and in high position’, [Nal. xii, 6]); elsewhere, when more than two things are enumerated, is placed after some and omitted after others (e.g. ṛṇa-dātā ca vaidyaś ca śrotriyo nadī, ‘the payer of a debt and a physician [and] a Brāhman [and] a river’, [Hit. i, 4, 55]); in Ved. and even in class. Sanskṛt [[Mn. iii, 20]; [ix, 322]; [Hit.]], when the double would generally be used, the second may occasionally be omitted (e.g. indraś ca soma, ‘both Indra [and thou] Soma’, [RV. vii, 104, 25]; durbhedyaś cāśusaṃdheyaḥ, ‘both difficult to be divided [and] quickly united’, [Hit. i]); with lexicographers may imply a reference to certain other words which are not expressed (e.g. kamaṇḍalau ca karakaḥ, ‘the word karaka has the meaning ‘pitcher’ and other meanings’); sometimes is = eva, even, indeed, certainly, just (e.g. su-cintitaṃ cauṣadhaṃ na nāma-mātreṇa karoty arogam, ‘even a well-devised remedy does not cure a disease by its mere name’, [Hit.]; yāvanta eva te tāvāṃśca saḥ, ‘as great as they [were] just so great was he’, [Ragh. xii, 45]); occasionally is disjunctive, ‘but’, ‘on the contrary’, ‘on the other hand’, ‘yet’, ‘nevertheless’ (varam ādyau na cāntimaḥ, ‘better the two first but not the last’, [Hit.] ; śāntam idam āśrama-padaṃ sphurati ca bāhuḥ, ‘this hermitage is tranquil yet my arm throbs’, [Śak. i, 15]); ca-ca, though — yet, [Vikr. ii, 9]; ca-na ca, though — yet not, [Pat.]; — na tu (v.l. nanu) id., [Mālav. iv, 8]; na ca — , though not — yet, [Pat.]; may be used for vā, ‘either’, ‘or’ (e.g. iha cāmutra vā, ‘either here or hereafter’, [Mn. xii, 89]; strī vā pumān vā yac cānyat sattvam, ‘either a woman or a man or any other being’, [R.]), and when a neg. particle is joined with the two may then be translated by ‘neither’, ‘nor’; occasionally one or one na is omitted (e.g. na ca paribhoktuṃ naiva śaknomi hātum, ‘I am able neither to enjoy nor to abandon’, [Śak. v, 18]; na pūrvāhṇe na ca parāhṇe, ‘neither in the forenoon nor in the afternoon’); ca-ca may express immediate connection between two acts or their simultaneous occurrence (e.g. mama ca muktaṃ tamasā mano manasijena dhanuṣi śaraś ca niveśitaḥ, ‘no sooner is my mind freed from darkness than a shaft is fixed on his bow by the heart-born god’, [vi, 8]); is sometimes = ced, ‘if’ (cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 30]; the verb is accented), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Vikr. ii, 20]; [Bhartṛ. ii, 45]; may be used as an expletive (e.g. anyaiś ca kratubhiś ca, ‘and with other sacrifices’); is often joined to an adv. like eva, api, tathā, tathaiva, &c., either with or without a neg. particle (e.g. vairiṇaṃ nopaseveta sahāyaṃ caiva vairiṇaḥ, ‘one ought not to serve either an enemy or the ally of an enemy’, [Mn. iv, 133]); (see eva, api, &c.) For the meaning of after an interrogative See ká, kathā́, kím, kvá);

ca : [cf. τε, Lat. que, pe (in nempe &c.); Goth. uh; Zd. ca; Old Pers. cā.]

ca : mfn. pure, [L.]

ca : moving to and fro, [L.]

ca : mischievous, [L.]

ca : seedless, [L.]

ca : m. a thief, [L.]

ca : the moon, [L.]

ca : a tortoise, [L.]

ca : Śiva, [L.]

ava : áva m. favour, [RV. i, 128, 5]

ava : (cf. niravát.)

ava : áva ind. (as a prefix to verbs and verbal nouns expresses) off, away, down, [RV.] &c.

ava : (exceptionally as a preposition with abl.) down from, [AV. vii, 55, 1]

ava : (for another use of this preposition See ava-kokila.)

ava : (only gen. du. avór with vām, ‘of you both’, corresponding to sá tvám, ‘thou’, &c.), this, [RV. vi, 67, 11]; [vii, 67, 4] and (vā for vām), [x, 132, 5]

ava : [Zd. pron. ava; Slav. ovo; cf. also the syllable, αὐ in αὐ-τός, αὖ, αὖθι, &c.; Lat. au-t, au-tem, &c.]

ca : the 20th letter of the alphabet, 1st of the 2nd (or palatal) class of consonants, having the sound of ch in church.

ca : ind. and, both, also, moreover, as well as (= τε, Lat. que, placed like these particles as an enclitic after the word which it connects with what precedes; when used with a personal pronoun this must appear in its fuller accented form (e.g. táva ca máma ca [not te ca me ca], ‘both of thee and me’), when used after verbs the first of them is accented, [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 58 f.]; it connects whole sentences as well as parts of sentences; in [RV.] the double occurs more frequently than the single (e.g. aháṃ ca tváṃ ca, ‘I and thou’, [viii, 62, 11]); the double may also be used somewhat redundantly in class. Sanskṛt (e.g. kva hariṇakānāṃ jīvitaṃ cātilolaṃ kva ca vajra-sārāḥ śarās te, ‘where is the frail existence, of fawns and where are thy adamantine arrows?’, [Śak. i, 10]); in later literature, however, the first is more usually omitted (e.g. ahaṃ tvaṃ ca), and when more than two things are enumerated only one is often found (e.g. tejasā yaśasā lakṣmyā sthityā ca parayā, ‘in glory, in fame, in beauty, and in high position’, [Nal. xii, 6]); elsewhere, when more than two things are enumerated, is placed after some and omitted after others (e.g. ṛṇa-dātā ca vaidyaś ca śrotriyo nadī, ‘the payer of a debt and a physician [and] a Brāhman [and] a river’, [Hit. i, 4, 55]); in Ved. and even in class. Sanskṛt [[Mn. iii, 20]; [ix, 322]; [Hit.]], when the double would generally be used, the second may occasionally be omitted (e.g. indraś ca soma, ‘both Indra [and thou] Soma’, [RV. vii, 104, 25]; durbhedyaś cāśusaṃdheyaḥ, ‘both difficult to be divided [and] quickly united’, [Hit. i]); with lexicographers may imply a reference to certain other words which are not expressed (e.g. kamaṇḍalau ca karakaḥ, ‘the word karaka has the meaning ‘pitcher’ and other meanings’); sometimes is = eva, even, indeed, certainly, just (e.g. su-cintitaṃ cauṣadhaṃ na nāma-mātreṇa karoty arogam, ‘even a well-devised remedy does not cure a disease by its mere name’, [Hit.]; yāvanta eva te tāvāṃśca saḥ, ‘as great as they [were] just so great was he’, [Ragh. xii, 45]); occasionally is disjunctive, ‘but’, ‘on the contrary’, ‘on the other hand’, ‘yet’, ‘nevertheless’ (varam ādyau na cāntimaḥ, ‘better the two first but not the last’, [Hit.] ; śāntam idam āśrama-padaṃ sphurati ca bāhuḥ, ‘this hermitage is tranquil yet my arm throbs’, [Śak. i, 15]); ca-ca, though — yet, [Vikr. ii, 9]; ca-na ca, though — yet not, [Pat.]; — na tu (v.l. nanu) id., [Mālav. iv, 8]; na ca — , though not — yet, [Pat.]; may be used for vā, ‘either’, ‘or’ (e.g. iha cāmutra vā, ‘either here or hereafter’, [Mn. xii, 89]; strī vā pumān vā yac cānyat sattvam, ‘either a woman or a man or any other being’, [R.]), and when a neg. particle is joined with the two may then be translated by ‘neither’, ‘nor’; occasionally one or one na is omitted (e.g. na ca paribhoktuṃ naiva śaknomi hātum, ‘I am able neither to enjoy nor to abandon’, [Śak. v, 18]; na pūrvāhṇe na ca parāhṇe, ‘neither in the forenoon nor in the afternoon’); ca-ca may express immediate connection between two acts or their simultaneous occurrence (e.g. mama ca muktaṃ tamasā mano manasijena dhanuṣi śaraś ca niveśitaḥ, ‘no sooner is my mind freed from darkness than a shaft is fixed on his bow by the heart-born god’, [vi, 8]); is sometimes = ced, ‘if’ (cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 30]; the verb is accented), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Vikr. ii, 20]; [Bhartṛ. ii, 45]; may be used as an expletive (e.g. anyaiś ca kratubhiś ca, ‘and with other sacrifices’); is often joined to an adv. like eva, api, tathā, tathaiva, &c., either with or without a neg. particle (e.g. vairiṇaṃ nopaseveta sahāyaṃ caiva vairiṇaḥ, ‘one ought not to serve either an enemy or the ally of an enemy’, [Mn. iv, 133]); (see eva, api, &c.) For the meaning of after an interrogative See ká, kathā́, kím, kvá);

ca : [cf. τε, Lat. que, pe (in nempe &c.); Goth. uh; Zd. ca; Old Pers. cā.]

ca : mfn. pure, [L.]

ca : moving to and fro, [L.]

ca : mischievous, [L.]

ca : seedless, [L.]

ca : m. a thief, [L.]

ca : the moon, [L.]

ca : a tortoise, [L.]

ca : Śiva, [L.]

asura : ásura mfn. (√ 2. as, [Uṇ.]), spiritual, incorporeal, divine, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

asura : ásura m. a spirit, good spirit, supreme spirit (said of Varuṇa), [RV.]; [VS.]

asura : the chief of the evil spirits, [RV. ii, 30, 4] and [vii, 99, 5]

asura : an evil spirit, demon, ghost, opponent of the gods, [RV. viii, 96, 9]

asura : [x]; [AV.] &c. [these Asuras are often regarded as the children of Diti by Kaśyapa See daitya; as such they are demons of the first order in perpetual hostility with the gods, and must not be confounded with the Rākṣasas or imps who animate dead bodies and disturb sacrifices]

asura : a N. of Rāhu, [VarBṛS.] &c.

asura : the sun, [L.]

asura : a cloud, [Naigh.] (cf. [RV. v, 83, 6])

asura : ásura m. pl. N. of a warrior-tribe, (g. parśv-ādi, q.v.)

asura : ásura m. of a Vedic school

asura : ásura [In later Sanskṛt sura has been formed from , as sita from asita, q.v.]

asura : ásura See ásu.

iva : ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā)

iva : as it were, as if (e.g. patheva, as if on a path)

iva : in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion)

iva : nearly, almost, about (e.g. muhūrtam iva, almost an hour)

iva : so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction, e.g. īṣad iva, just a little; kiṃcid iva, just a little bit: and after a negation, e.g. na cirād iva, very soon). is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb (e.g. kim iva, what? katham iva, how could that possibly be? kveva, where, I should like to know?). In the Pada texts of the Ṛg, Yajur, and Atharva-veda, and by native grammarians, is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands, [RV.]; [AV.]; &c.