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yāvat, yāva , ( 1 ) (= Pali yāva, Vin. ii.196.5 yāva pāpo ayaṃ Devadatto; see also Childers s.v. ), how (exclamatory) … ! Skt. would use an interrog. , not rel. ; the origin of the idiom may be seen in such a sentence as: āścaryam adbhutam idaṃ paśyatha yāvat maharddhikaḥ śāstā Mv i.206.11 = ii.10.5 ( vs ), see this wonder and marvel, the extent to which the Teacher is … ! ; aho yāva kalyāṇā … dhārmikā ca Mv i.350.7 ; so also i.301.16 ; 303.8 ( acc. to Senart ; I am not certain of this); 365.7 ; ii.10.7 ; iii.412.10 ; see yādṛśa , once used similarly; ( 2 ) as far as , indicating omission of part of a quoted or repeated passage, which is to be supplied (this usage seems not recorded): yāva Mv i.52.9 ; ii.428.14 ( v.l. yāvad); yāvad Mv i.339.7, 12 ; Śikṣ 6.1 etc. , very common here. Differs from peyālaṃ and equivalents in that yāva(t) is always followed by the concluding word(s) of the passage, while peyālaṃ need not be; ( 3 ) yāvac ca … yāvac ca (spatially) from … to (this usage not noted elsewhere); the nouns are in acc. , nom. , rarely abl. ; after the second, the phrase may (but need not) be concluded by atrāntare, in the space between ( Mv ii.150.2 ; MSV ii.74.15 ; Divy 574.28 ), atrāntarā ( Av i.107.10—11 ), antarāt ( q.v. , Divy 386.9—10 ), tasminn antare ( LV 273.9—10 ), etad antaram ( Divy 250.7 ); the ca after the first yāvat is rarely omitted (so in the first ex. ): yāvad rājakulaṃ yāvac ca udyānabhūmiṃ atrāntare Mv ii.150.2 ; so, yāva(c) ca … yāva(c) ca, withs accs. , ii.150.7 ; 151.19 ; 153.14 ; 156.6 ; yāvac ca Mathurāṃ yāvac ca Pāṭaliputram Divy 386.9—10 ; veṇuvanaṃ … rājagṛham Av i.107.10—11 ; with noms. , MSV ii.74.15 ; yāva(c) ca bodhi (or bodhir) yāva(c) ca Vārāṇasī ( v.l. °sīṃ, once °sīyo), from the bodhi-tree to Benares , Mv iii.323.10, 14 ; 324.3 ; vihāro … nagaram Divy 250.7 ; gṛhaṃ … nadī, from the house to the river , Divy 574.28 ; with abl. , yāvac ca nadyā Nairañjanāyā yāvac ca bodhimaṇḍādes ( vv.ll. °maṇḍād, °maṇḍas) LV 273.9 , from the river N. to the bodhi-tree . See also yāvatā, yāvad etto ( s.v. etto ), yāvad eva .