Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. (Correlative of yāvatṃ q. v.) 1 So much, that much, so many; te tu yāvaṃta evājau tāvāṃśca dadṛśe sa taiḥ R. 12. 45; H. 4. 72; Ku. 2. 33.
2 So great, so large, of this extent; yāvatī saṃbhaved vṛttistāvatīṃ dā- tumarhasi Ms. 8. 155, 9. 249; Bg. 2. 46.
3 All (expressing totality); yāva- ddattaṃ tāvadbhuktaṃ G. M. ind. 1 First (before doing anything else); ārye itastāvadāgamyatāṃ Ś. 1; āhlādayasva tā-...