kiyat- (4875)

kiyat-
Entry 4875, Page 183, Col. 2

(kiyat, kiyat-)
kiyat-¦ in comp., in interrogative-exclamatory func- tion (in Skt. only with pejorative connotation, = very little), with complimentary, or at least (when prefixed to a word in itself uncomplimentary) augmentative force, = exceedingly, in high degree: LV 158.2 (vs) kiyad-vibhū- ṣito bālaḥ pāpacārī na śobhate, (even) highly adorned, a foolish evil-doer does not shine; foll. by api, Śikṣ 130.1 kiyatpraṇītam api bhojanam, even very fine (? however fine) food; 130.11 kiyal-lūhenāpi bhojanena, even with very poor food; 151.5 kiyad-dhīnānām api sattvānām, even of extremely low creatures. Foucaux takes the LV passage as having indefinite kiyat-; even when the cpd. beginning with kiyat- is followed by api, as in the Śikṣ passages, it can hardly be taken as the indefinitizing api.PTSD interprets Pali kīvat as indefinite in Sn 959, but this is an error; it is interrogative (-exclamatory). Cf. next.

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