Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. [na. ba.] Helpless, poor, forlorn, parentless, orphan (as a child); widowed (as a wife); having no master or natural protec- tor, without a protector in general; nāthavaṃtastvayā lokāstvamanāthā vipatsyase U. 1. 43; R. 12. 12. thaṃ Ved. Helpless- ness. Comp. piṃḍadaḥ, -piṃḍikaḥ ‘giver of food to the poor,’ N. of a merchant in whose garden Buddha Gautama used to instruct his pupils. sabhā a poor-house.