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सव्य mfn. mf(आ)n. (accord. to [Uṇ. iv, 109] fr. √ सू; perhaps for स्कव्यcf. Gk. , col. 3) left, left hand (अम्, ए॑न, आ॑ए, and ibc. , ‘on the left’), [RV.] &c. &c. अम् opposite to left, right, right hand (, एन, and ibc. , ‘on the right’) अम् south, southern ( &c., ‘to the south’), [Sūryas.] ; [VarBṛS.] reverse, contrary, backward, [L.] सव्य m. m. the left arm or hand, [RV.] ; [Br.] ; KātyŚr.; [Yājñ.] the left foot, KātyŚr.; [Gobh.] one of the ten ways in which an eclipse takes place, [VarBṛS.] a fire lighted at a person's death, [L.] N. of विष्णु, [L.] सव्य () N. of a man befriended by the अश्विन्s, [RV.] of an अङ्गिरस and author of [RV. i, 51-57] ; [Anukr.] सव्य n. n. (scil. यज्ञो-पवीत) the sacred thread worn over the left shoulder (acc. with √ कृ, ‘to put the sacred th° over the l° sh° ’), KātyŚr. Sch. सव्य [accord. to some for स्कव्य, cf. Gk. σκαιός; Lat. scaevus; accord. to others for स्यव्यcf. Slav. šujî].
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