api (1354)

api
Entry 1354, Page 46, Col. 2

(api, api)
api¦, indecl., (1) if: SP 229.4 (vs) apy ekavāraṃ pi vadeta sūtram, if he should recite the sūtra even (pi) once; (2) after negative expressions, but, Ger. sondern (Skt. api tu; cf. CPD s.v. api A, 1, a, 4): Mv ii.109.16 (na adya kiṃcit parvo na utsavo,) api drumasya…dhītā…āgatā, it is no holiday or festival today, but the daughter of Druma …has arrived; 110.12, na me svayaṃ dṛṣṭo nāpi parato śruto, api me…aṅgulīyakā utsaṅge patitā, I have not seen him myself nor yet heard of him from another, but… his ring fell in my lap; 248.12 na ca kiṃci śarīrapīḍā āsi, api me samudrapāraṃ gatvā āgatvā, and I have no bodily disease, but as I am going to the other side of the sea and [Page047-a+ 71] coming back-- (sentence unfinished); (3) api…api, either…or; in Skt. apparently only api vā, or vāpi, are so used; but in Pali pi…pi, see CPD s.v. api, B (1): SP 321.12 (prose) varṇenāpi na rocate gandhenāpi rasen- āpi na rocate, is not pleasing by reason of either color or smell or taste; [(4) in api nāma tvaṃ…adinnam… ādiyasi Mv i.346.13, api nāma apparently means surely! most certainly! in a strong asseveration. But exactly the same expression is repeated twice below, 346.20 and 347.8, with asti (nāma) instead of api, and this is the true reading; see s.v. 1 asti (1);] (5) apy eva nāma (= api nāma, perhaps, in Skt. BR s.v. api 13; in Pali, both api nāma and app' eva nāma, perhaps, CPD s.v. api, A, 1, c), (a) perhaps SP 228.1; 459.8; Śikṣ 58.16; Bbh 15.7; (b) if only, in strong wish (so Skt. api nāma, e.g. Śākuntala, Pischel^2, HOS 16, 1.20.30), Mv iii.272.8 apy eva nāma āryaputraḥ agāram adhyāvaseyā, if only my dear lord would take up domestic life! This mg. is recognized for api alone, BR s.v. 11. See apy-ekatya.