apacī kṛta

 

The phrase “apacī kṛta” is written in Devanagari as अपची कृत

 kṛta most naturally means “caused to become apacī,” i.e., “made into a swelling/enlargement of the neck glands,” because apacī is a feminine noun referring to such a condition in classical Sanskrit.

What apacī means

The supplied sources show several distinct senses of apacī:

• Medical sense (primary in Sanskrit lexicons) — apacī is “a disease in which the glands of the neck are enlarged and swollen”

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  . It is also described as “chronic lymphadenitis” and “enlargement of the gland of the neck”

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• General medical description — “a number of tumors… which burst, suppurate and disappear when others come again” (Suśruta, summarized in the dictionary entry)

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• Verbal root sense — from apa + √ci, the verb apaci can mean “to gather, collect” or in the passive “to be reduced, wane, diminish”

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• Directional sense (Pāli/Sanskrit variant apācī) — “the south or west”

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  . This is a different word and not the same as the medical apacī.
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For Sanskrit usage, the medical feminine noun is the standard meaning.

What kṛta means

kṛta is the past passive participle of √kṛ “to do, make.”
It means “done, made, caused, produced.”

Meaning of the compound apacī kṛta

Because apacī is a feminine noun and kṛta is a participle, the phrase is interpreted as:

• “made into apacī”
• “caused to become apacī”
• “rendered a swelling/enlargement of the neck glands”

In medical or Ayurvedic texts, this would describe a condition or lesion that has developed into apacī, i.e., has become a glandular swelling.

Grammatical structure

• apacī — feminine noun; from apa (prefix “away, bad”) + √ci (“to gather/collect”), interpreted medically as “a bad/abnormal gathering (of tissue)”

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• kṛta — past participle “made, done.”
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Thus apacī‑kṛta = “made into apacī.”

Other possible but less likely interpretations

If one used the verbal sense of apaci (“to diminish, waste away”), then apacī‑kṛta could theoretically mean “caused to diminish,” but this is not how the feminine noun apacī is used in Sanskrit dictionaries, so this reading is unlikely compared to the medical sense.