aparīta

 

Aparīta means “unobstructed, irresistible,

not surrounded or approached” and is

spelled in Devanagari as अपरीत.

✅ Core meanings (Sanskrit dictionaries)

All major Sanskrit lexicons agree on the same cluster of meanings for aparīta:

• “Not surrounded or encircled; not approached” (अनभिगत) — a Vedic 
• adjectival sense

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• “Unobstructed, irresistible; unrestrained” — another Vedic usage

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• “Not impeded; difficult of approach; not attained” — extended 
• descriptive senses

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• A proper noun: “Name of a people / country” — noted as a varia 
• lectio (variant reading) in several dictionaries

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These definitions appear consistently across Apte, Monier-Williams, 

Cappeller, Goldstücker, and Böhtlingk & Roth, all cited in the Wisdom 

Library entry

Wisdom Library

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✅ Devanagari spelling

The dictionaries explicitly give the Devanagari form:

• अपरीत

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This spelling uses:

• अ (a)
• प (pa)
• र (ra)
• ी (long ī)
• त (ta)

✅ Transliteration and pronunciation

• IAST: aparīta
• Pronunciation: a-pa-rī-ta (long ī in the third syllable)

✅ Grammatical notes

• Gender: masculine, feminine, neuter (adjectival)

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• Usage: primarily Vedic, though the ethnonym appears in later lexicons

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✅ Summary

If you encounter aparīta (अपरीत) in a Vedic or classical Sanskrit text, it 

most often means:

• unobstructed,
• irresistible,
• not surrounded / not approached,

and occasionally refers to a people or region in variant readings.