यावत् [ yāvat ] [ yā́vat ] m. f. n. ( fr. 3. [ ya ] ; correlative of [ tāvat ] q.v.) as great , as large , as much , as many , as often , as frequent , as far , as long , as old (or how great = quantus , quot or qualis) Lit. RV. ( [ yā́vantaḥ kí yantaḥ ] , " as many as " Lit. TBr. ; [ yā́vad vā yāvad vā ] , " as much as possible " Lit. ŚBr. ; [ yāvat tāvat ] , " so much as " , in alg. applied to the first unknown quantity ( = x ) or so much of the unknown as its co-efficient number ; in this sense also expressed by the first syllable [ yā ] cf. Lit. IW. 182 ; [ iti yāvat ] in Comms. " just so much " , " only so " , " that is to say " , " such is the explanation " )

[ yāvat ] ind. as greatly as , as far as , as much or as many as

as often as , whenever

as long as , whilst

as soon as , the moment that , until that , till , until Lit. RV. (in these senses used with either pres. Pot. fut. impf. , or aor. , or with the simple copula) . [ yāvat ] with the 1st sg. of pres. , rarely of Pot. , may denote an intended action and may be translated by " meanwhile " , " just "

[ yā́vad yāvad-tā́vat tāvat ] , " as gradually as-so " Lit. ŚBr.

[ yāvan na ] , " while not " , " before " , " till "

" if not " , " whether not "

[ na yāvattāvat ] , " scarcely-when " , " no sooner-than "

[ na param ] or [ na kevalam-yāvat ] , " not only-but even. " Sometimes [ yāvat ] is also used as a preposition with a prec. or following acc. , or with a following abl. , rarely dat. e.g. [ māsam ekaṃ yāvat ] , " during one month "

[ sūryodayaṃ yāvat ] , " until sunrise "

[ sarpa-vivaraṃ yāvat ] , " up to the serpent's hole "

[ yāvad ] or [ yāvad-ā samāpanāt ] , " until the completion "

[ yāvad garbhasya paripākāya ] , " until the maturity of the fetus. " Sometimes also with a nom. followed by [ iti ] e.g. [ anta iti yāvat ] , " as far as the end "

[ pañca yāvad iti ] , " up to five "

ind. or with another ind. word e.g. [ adya yāvat ] , " up to this day. " [ yāvatā ] ind. as far as , as long as Lit. Āpast. Lit. R. Lit. BhP.

ind. till , until ( with Pot.) Lit. Lāṭy. ( with [ na ] , as long as not , before Lit. BhP.)

as soon as , the moment that Lit. Cat.

in as much as Lit. Pat.

[ yāvati ] ind. as long as , as far as Lit. ŚBr. Lit. TBr.

ind. [ yāvati-tāvati ] Lit. Daś.

[ yāvatā ] ind. , see [ yāvat ] , as far as , as long as Lit. Āpast. Lit. R. Lit. BhP.