atawa a. [ na . ba .] Having no shore or beach; precipitate, steep. — waH 1 A precipice, a steep crag. 2 N. of a hill. 3 The lower part of the earth. Comp. — prapAtaH a steep precipice; a fall headlong from a precipice; a precipitate fall; manoraTAnAmatawaprapAtaH Ś. 6. 9 of my hopes there is a precipitate fall (some read the line as manoraTA nAma tawaprapAtaH and take it to mean ‘verily our desires are like the crumblings of river banks).