Abhivarta, Abhīvarta: 6 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAbhivarta (अभिवर्त).—Name of a Sāman; T. Saṃhitā.
Derivable forms: abhivartaḥ (अभिवर्तः).
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Abhīvarta (अभीवर्त).—[vṛt-karaṇe ghañ]
1) Name of a Sāman, Brahma Sāman
2) Name of a hymn (Ṛgveda 1.174) recited in attacking the enemy.
3) A year.
4) A sort of oblation. (B. and R. take this word to mean 'existing everywhere', 'attacking successfully', 'successful attack or victory'.)
Derivable forms: abhīvartaḥ (अभीवर्तः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryAbhīvarta (अभीवर्त).—[adjective] victorious; [masculine] victory.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Abhivarta (अभिवर्त):—[=abhi-varta] [from abhi-vṛt] m. (= abhī-v) Name of a Sāman, [Taittirīya-saṃhitā]
2) Abhīvarta (अभीवर्त):—[=abhī-varta] [from abhi-vṛt] a mfn. rendering victorious, [Ṛg-veda x, 174, 1 and 3]
3) [v.s. ...] m. victorious attack, victory, [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā]
4) [v.s. ...] Name of different Sāmans (especially of the hymn, [Ṛg-veda x, 174]) supposed to render victorious, [Āśvalāyana-gṛhya-sūtra; Lāṭyāyana]
5) [=abhī-varta] b See abhi-√vṛt.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAbhivarta (अभिवर्त):—See abhīvarta.
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Abhīvarta (अभीवर्त):—[tatpurusha compound] m.
(-rtaḥ) (ved.)
1) Being everywhere; e. g. Ṛgv.: abhi tvā viśvabhūtānyabhīvarto yathāsasi (Sāy.: = abhitaḥ sarvatra vartamāno bhavasi).
2) Approaching, esp. with hostile intent; e. g. Ṛgv.: abhīvartena haviṣā yenendro abhivāvṛte . tenāsmānbrahmaṇaspatebhi rāṣṭrāya vartaya (Sāyaṇa: abhīvartena = abhigacchatā); or Atharv.: abhīvartena maṇinā yenendro abhivāvṛdhe . tenāºº. Hence the word has become the epithet or name of several vaidik verses or hymns which are recited for obtaining victory; Benfey, in his valuable Index to the Sāmaveda, mentions the following Sāma-verses which, in the Gānas bear this name: 1. 242 (= 1. 3. 1. 5. 10), 2. 25. 26 (= Ii. 1. 1. 9), or only 2. 25b. 26a (= Ii. 1. 1. 9. 1b. 2a), 2. 35. 36 (= Ii. 1. 1. 13), 2. 117 (= Ii. 1. 2. 20. 1), 2. 161. 162 (= Ii. 2. 1. 13), 2. 206 (= 2. 2. 9. 1), 2. 214-216 (= Ii. 2. 2. 12), 2. 272 b. 273 a (= Ii. 3. 1. 11. 1 b. 2 a), 2. 283. 284 (= Ii. 3. 1. 15), 2 347 b. 348 a (= Ii. 3. 2. 12. 1 b. 2 a), 2. 429 a. 430 b (= Ii. 4. 1. 12. 1b. 2a), 2. 710-713 (= Ii. 6. 1. 5 and 6), 2. 741-743 (= Ii. 6. 2. 5), 2. 761. 762 (= Ii. 6. 2. 12), 2. 771. 772 (= Ii. 6. 2. 16), 2. 929. 930 (= Ii. 7. 3. 3), 2. 987. 988 (= Ii. 8. 1. 8); moreover indrasyābhīvartaḥ or prajāpaterabhīvartaḥ or abhīvartasyāṅgirasasya bhāgam 1. 236 (= 1. 3. 1. 5. 4); jamadagnerabhīvartaḥ 1. 239 (= I. 3. 1. 5. 7) and 2. 771. 772 (see above); vṛṣasya jñānasyābhīvartaḥ 1. 523 (= I. 6. 1. 4. 1); e. g. MaśakaKalpa-Sūtr. (in the chapter on the Abhijit): pra soma devavītaya ityabhīvartaḥ (i. e. Sāmav. 2. 117); or punānaḥ soma dhārayetyabhīvartaḥ (i. e. 2. 25); also called Brahmasāman; e. g. Mādh. Jaiminīyany.: gavāmayane brahmasāma vihitam . abhīvarto brahmasāma bhavati.—It is the name, too, of Ṛgv. 10. 174.—In Vājas. 14. 23. the name is applied to a sacrificial brick (iṣṭakā), when Mahīdhara explains abhīvarta as meaning literally either ‘repetition’ or ‘approaching’, the former assuming the sense stoma, since the Sāmaverses are repeated in a hymn of that description, and the latter the meaning ‘year’, since the year (i. e. time) approaches all created beings; he holds therefore that the brick is likened in this passage to a hymn or to a year. (The vaidik glossary of Someśvara explains the word in this manner: abhīvarto bhūtabhedayātāyātanirūpaṇe . nānāsaṃsṛtisaṃsthānasvarūpāmnāyavarṇane . divyeṣṭikātmanicayacayanepi prakīrtitaḥ). E. vṛt with abhi, kṛt aff. ghañ; the second vowel being protracted; (this protraction is mentioned in the Prātiśākhyas).
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