Yāvant (pronoun relative) [cf. Sanskrit yāvant; same formation as demonstrative pronoun tāvant, of which the Pāli uses the adverb neuter tāva(t) form more frequently than the adjective tāvant. The only case so far ascertained where tāvant occurs as adjective is Ja V 72 (see below)] 1. yāvant as adjective: as many (as) Dhp 337 (yāvant'ettha samāgatā as many as are assembled here); Ja V 72 (yāvanto uda-bindūni ... tāvanto gaṇḍū jāyetha; commentary on page 74 explains by yattakāni; yāvatā plural as many as Pv II 1 16 ; yāvanto Pv II 7 16 (= yāvatakā Pv-a 103); Ja V 370 (detha vatthāni ... yavanto eva icchati as many as he wants). 2. yāvat (neuter) used adverbially. The examples and meanings given here are really to be combined with those given under yāva 2 (yāvad°). It is hardly possible to dis- {556} tinguish clearly between the 2 categories; the t may well have been reduced to d or been replaced by another sandhi consonant. However, the specific Pāli use of yāva (like tāva) justifies a separate treatment of yāva in that form only. — yāvat occurs only in combination with ca (where we may assume either a peculiar neuter form yāvaṃ: see yāva 2; or an assimilation of t to ñ before c. — The form yāva mahantaṃ may originally have been a yāvaṃ m.) as yāvañ ca "and that," "i.e.," how much, however much, so great S I 149 (passive yāvañ ca te idaṃ aparaddhaṃ: see how great a mistake you have made in this); It 91, 92 (passa yāvañ ca ārakā and santike: see how far and near). yāvañ c'idaṃ stands for yad-idaṃ (see ya° 4) in peculiar use of restriction at M. III 169; S II 178; A III 34. 3. The neuter form yāvat further occurs in following compounds: °āyukaṃ (better as yāvat° than yāvatā°) as long as life lasts, for a lifetime Mhv 3, 41; Vv-a 196 (as adjective °āyukā dibba-sampatti); Pv-a 66, 73, 133; °icchakaṃ as much as is desired, according to one's wishes Pp 12, 25; Vism 154 (here spelt yāvad-icchakaṃ); °ihaṃ see under yāva (compounds) — instrumental yavatā: see seperate.
(adj, adj, from yāva) as many as; however many [lit.] having so much quality Construction: yāva + vant