apatyaM [ na pataMti pitaro'nena, pat bAhu° karaRe yat, na . ta . ; some derive it from apa , the termination tya being added to it, as in tatratya, atratya , sprung from a stock; Yāska gives two etymologies: apatyaM kasmAt apatataM Bavati pituH sakASAdetya pfTagiva tataM Bavati, anena jAtena satA pitA narake na patatIti vA ] 1 Offspring, child, progeny, issue (of animals and men); offspring in general (male ( pb ) or female); sons or grandsons and other later generations of a Gotra; apatyaM pOtrapraBfti gotraM P. IV. 1. 162 ; apatyEriva nIvAraBAgaDeyocitErmfgEH R. 1. 50. (Bhavabhūti calls an apatya ‘a knot for tying parents together’ anyonyasaMSlezaRaMpitroH; aMtaHkaraRatattvasya daMpatyoH snehasaMSrayAt . AnaMdagraMTirekoyamapatyamiti baDyate .. U. 3. 17 ). 2 A patronymic affix; strIpuMsayorapatyAMtAH Ak. ; °aDikAraprakaraRaM Sk. Comp. — kAma a. desirous of progeny. — jIvaH N. of a plant. — da a. giving offspring (as a Mantra &c.). — (dA) N. of a plant ( garBadAtrIvfkza ). — paTaH the vulva. — pratyayaH a patronymic affix. — vikrayin m. a seller of his children, a father who sells his girl for money to a bridegroom. — SatruH [ apatyaM SatrurgarBaBedanena nASakaM yasyAH sA ] 1 ‘having the child for its enemy’, a crab (said to die in proḍucing young). 2 a serpent. — sAc a. Ved. accompanied with offspring.