yāvat, yāva, (1) (12479)

yāvat, yāva, (1)
Entry 12479, Page 447, Col. 1

(yAvat, yAvat, yAva)
yāvat, yāva, (1)¦ (= Pali yāva, Vin. ii.196.5 yāva pāpo ayaṃ Devadatto; see also Childers s.v.), how (ex- clamatory)…! Skt. would use an interrog., not rel.; the origin of the idiom may be seen in such a sentence as: āścaryam adbhutam idaṃ paśyatha yāvat mahard- dhikaḥ śāstā Mv i.206.11 = ii.10.5 (vs), see this wonder and marvel, the extent to which the Teacher is…!; aho yāva kalyāṇā…dhārmikā ca Mv i.350.7; so also i.301.16; 303.8 (acc. to Senart; I am not certain of this); 365.7; ii.10.7; iii.412.10; see yādṛśa, once used similarly; (2) as far as, indicating omission of part of a quoted or repeated passage, which is to be supplied (this usage seems not recorded): yāva Mv i.52.9; ii.428.14 (v.l. yāvad); yāvad Mv i.339.7, 12; Śikṣ 6.1 etc., very common here. Differs from peyālaṃ and equivalents in that yāva(t) is always followed by the concluding word(s) of the passage, while peyālaṃ need not be; (3) yāvac ca…yāvac ca (spatially) from…to (this usage not noted elsewhere); the nouns are in acc., nom., rarely abl.; after the second, the phrase may (but need not) be concluded by atrāntare, in the space between (Mv ii.150.2; MSV ii.74.15; Divy 574.28), atrāntarā (Av i.107.10--11), antarāt (q.v., Divy 386.9--10), tasminn antare (LV 273.9--10), etad antaram (Divy 250.7); the ca after the first yāvat is rarely omitted (so in the first ex.): yāvad rājakulaṃ yāvac ca udyānabhūmiṃ atrāntare Mv ii.150.2; so, yāva(c) ca…yāva(c) ca, withs accs., ii.150.7; 151.19; 153.14; 156.6; yāvac ca Mathurāṃ yāvac ca Pāṭaliputram Divy 386.9--10; veṇuvanaṃ… rājagṛham Av i.107.10--11; with noms., MSV ii.74.15; yāva(c) ca bodhi (or bodhir) yāva(c) ca Vārāṇasī (v.l. °sīṃ, once °sīyo), from the bodhi-tree to Benares, Mv iii. 323.10, 14; 324.3; vihāro…nagaram Divy 250.7; gṛhaṃ …nadī, from the house to the river, Divy 574.28; with abl., yāvac ca nadyā Nairañjanāyā yāvac ca bodhimaṇ- ḍādes (vv.ll. °maṇḍād, °maṇḍas) LV 273.9, from the river N. to the bodhi-tree. See also yāvatā, yāvad etto (s.v. etto), yāvad eva.

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