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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Abhyavahārya (अभ्यवहार्य).—pot. p. Fit to eat, eatable; कानि चाभ्यवहार्याणि तत्र तेषां महात्मनाम् (kāni cābhyavahāryāṇi tatra teṣāṃ mahātmanām) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 3.16.3.

-ryam Food; सर्वत्रौ- दरिकस्य अभ्यवहार्यमेव विषयः (sarvatrau- darikasya abhyavahāryameva viṣayaḥ) V.3.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abhyavahārya (अभ्यवहार्य).—i. e. abhyavahāra + ya, adj. Fit to be taken as food, eatable.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abhyavahārya (अभ्यवहार्य).—[adjective] fit for eating or drinking; [neuter] food.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Abhyavahārya (अभ्यवहार्य):—[=abhy-avahārya] [from abhyava-hṛ] mfn. eatable, [Rāmāyaṇa; Pāṇini [Scholiast or Commentator]] and [commentator or commentary]

2) [v.s. ...] n. ([Vikramorvaśī]) or (āṇi) n. [plural] ([Mahābhārata]) food, eating.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abhyavahārya (अभ्यवहार्य):—[tatpurusha compound] 1. m. f. n.

(-ryaḥ-ryā-ryam) Fit to be taken as food (solid or liquid); e. g. Vārtt. 1. to Pāṇ. Vii. 3. 69.: bhojyamabhyavahāryamiti vaktavyam, with which words Kātyāyana criticizes Pāṇini for having either restricted the sense of bhojya to that of bhakṣya (‘fit to serve as solid food’) or used bhakṣya in the general acceptation of abhyavahārya. Patanjali, it is true, defends Pāṇini (as he frequently sides with Pāṇini against the hypercriticisms of Kātyāyana) also on this occasion by alleging abbhakṣa and vāyubhakṣa in evidence that bhakṣ (and, impliedly, that bhakṣya) are used in a general sense; but on another occasion when he shows that there are words the bearing of which in the classical language can merely be established from the context in which they occur in the vaidik literature, and not be made out otherwise (see ekapada), he gives these very instances as a proof of his latter assertion, and admitting therefore that they belong to this exceptional category, corroborates thus involuntarily the view of Kātyāy. that bhakṣ cannot be applied to the word ap in a general sense, and much less to any other word having the sense of a liquid substance (Patanj. Introd.: athavā santyekapadānyapyavadhāraṇāni tadyathā . abbhakṣo vāyubhakṣa iti . apa eva bhakṣayati vāyumeva bhakṣayatīti gamyate . evamihāpi siddha eva na sādhya iti; Kaiyy.: evaśabdaprayoge dvipadamavadhāraṇam . dyotakatvena evaśabdasyāpekṣaṇāt . yadā tu dyotakamantareṇa sāmarthyādavadhāraṇaṃ gamyate tadā tadekapadamityucyate tatra sarva evāpo bhakṣayantītyabbhakṣaśrutiḥ sāmarthyānniyamamavagamayati . apa eveti . ihāpi nityānityavyatirekeṇa rāśyantarābhāvātsiddhaśabdopādānānniyamovagamyate). But as bhakṣ is applied to ap, in the vaidik language, and as it seems strange that Pāṇini should have erred in the use of so common words as bhojya or bhakṣya, it is possible also to obtain another result from this discussion of Patanjali, which would reconcile the observations he makes in his Introd., with those he has appended to the quoted Sūtra, a result supported by many Sūtras of Pāṇini, viz. that Kātyāyana, far from being a contemporary of Pāṇini, as is stated in one of the ghost stories of the Kathāsaritsāgara, has lived, on the contrary, at another period, and that many Vārttikas of his must not be looked upon by us as impugning the accuracy of Pāṇini's rules at the time when this grammarian wrote, but as commenting upon, extending and restricting the validity of these rules at a probably much later period of the Saṃskṛt literature. See my Preface to the MānavaKalpa-Sūtras. 2. n.

(-ryam) Food (in general); e. g. Rāmāy.: śucīnyabhyavahāryāṇi mūlāni ca phalāni ca; or Kāśikā: satṛṇamabhyavaharati . na kiṃcidabhyavahāryaṃ tyajatītyarthaḥ; or kharaviśadamabhyavahāryaṃ bhakṣaśabdenocyate. E. hṛ with ava and abhi, kṛtya aff. ṇyat.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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