Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. 1 Not on the left, right; apasavyena hastena Ms. 3. 214.
2 Contrary, opposite. vyaṃ ind. To the right, making the sacred thread hang down towards the left part of the body over the right shoulder (opp. savyaṃ when it hangs over the left); a position of the thread in Śrāddha or other religious ceremonies at particular times of those ceremonies (the three posi- tions being savya, nivīta & apasavya) Ms. 3. 279;...