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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryApānnapāt (अपान्नपात्):—[tatpurusha compound] m. (-t) (ved.) An epithet or name of Agni (fire) and Savitri (sun).—Sāyaṇa explains this word as meaning literally either ‘not protecting (na-pāt, from pā, kṛt aff. śatṛ) or not allowing to fall down (na-pāt from the caus. of pat, kṛt aff. kvip) the waters’, fire or sun drying up the water; or ‘the grandson of the waters’, water bringing forth plants and trees, and plants and trees being the cause of fire; the latter explanation, apparently more congenial with the vaidik poetry than the former, is also given by Yāska. Comp. ap and apānnaptṛ. [The word has two accents, viz. the udātta on the second and third syllable and is given by the Padatext of the Ṛgveda as representing not a compound, but two distinct words; that it may be analyzed so, is indubitable from passages where it occurs e. g. in the form napātamapām. On the other hand it must be observed that the double accent belongs also to other and similar [tatpurusha compound] mentioned in the Gaṇa to Pāṇ. Vi. 2. 140. (comp. e. g. tanūnapāt) and that this Gaṇa would comprise more words than those mentioned in the present edition of Pāṇ. and the ordinary Gaṇa lists as well as in the Kāśikā, if we may believe the Svaramañjarī of Nṛsiṃha, which mentions e. g. śukagranthinau (not referring this word to Vi. 2. 141.) and concludes with ityādi; it may be observed too, that the Nighanṭu mentions apānnapāt as one of the thirty-two pada enumerated V. 4., and that Sāyaṇa in his comm. cannot have looked upon it otherwise than as a compound when he writes e. g. apāṃnapātsaṃjñakogniḥ; comp. also the remark of Patanjali s. v. apānnaptṛ. The genitive plur. as a former part of a compound, is of rare occurrence, but met with also in other compounds beginning with apām, e. g. apāṃvatsa, apānnātha, apāmpati &c. and in the [tatpurusha compound] devānāṃpriya (Pāṇini Vi. 3. 21. Vārtt. 4.). E. apām (gen. plur. of ap) and napāt.
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