नपात् [ napāt ] [ nápāt ] [ napāt ] or [ naptṛ ] , m. ( the former stem only in the strong cases and earlier lang. ; the latter in Class. , but acc. [ naptāram ] appears in Lit. TS. and Lit. AitBr.) descendant , offspring , son (in this meaning esp. in Lit. RV. , e.g. [ apāṃ n ] , [ ūrjo n ] , [ divo n ] , [ vimuco n ] )

grandson (in later lang. restricted to this sense) Lit. RV.

N. of one of the Viśve devās Lit. MBh. xiii , 4362

path of the gods (?) Lit. Mahīdh. on Lit. VS. xix , 56

granddaughter (?) Lit. Uṇ. ii , 96 Sch.

[ napātī ] f. Lit. RV. Lit. AV. ( Lit. ix , 1 , 3 nom. [ °tí s ] ) daughter , granddaughter (pl. often fig. " the fingers , hands " )

[ naptrī ] f. granddaughter Lit. SVĀr. Lit. L. ( ( Prob. neither = [ na ] [ pat ] ( Lit. Uṇ. ii , 96) nor [ na ] [ pāt ] ( Lit. Pāṇ. vi , 3 , 75) , and of very questionable connection with √ [ nabh ] , or [ nah ] ; cf. Zd. (napāt) , (naptar) ; Gk. 1 , 2 ; Lat. (nepo1t-em) ; Angl.Sax. (nefa) ; H. Germ. (nëvo) , (nëve) , (Neffe) . ) )