kiyat
kiyat- in comp. , in interrogative-exclamatory function (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-vibhūṣito 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.