Dear Colleagues

I am enjoying reading Sāyaṇa's commentary to the Ṛgveda with a group of friends. We are stuck on a term nabviṣayatvāt , a property that causes accentuation of an initial syllable.

It occurs in the second last line in the commentary on 1.11.7 and in the sixth line of the commentary to 1.11.8 here:

https://archive.org/details/RgVedaWithSayanasCommentaryPart1/page/n137/mode/1up

We can't find anything under nab-, nap-, nabh-, naph- or nav- in any of the usual sources.  -bv- is such an odd combination.

What does nabviṣaya mean? What is the derivation?

Any guidance gratefully received.

Yours,

McComas

McComas Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit
School of Culture, History and Language
College of Asia and Pacific, Australian National University
Secretary-General, International Assoc. of Sanskrit Studies