apama a. [ apakfzwaM mIyate, mA bAhu° ka ] Ved. The most distant or remote, the last, lowest in caste, most degraded ( jAtyAtinikfzwa ). — maH (In astr. ) Declination; the ecliptic; parisaratAM gaganasadAM calanaM kiMcidBavedapamaH Sid. Śir. Comp. — jyA the line of the ecliptic; see krAMtijyA . — maMqalaM, -vfttaM the ecliptic.