iva

iva ind. ( fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā)

in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion)

so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction, e.g. īṣadiva, just a little; kiṃcidiva, just a little bit: and after a negation, e.g. nacirādiva, very soon). iva is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb ( e.g. kimiva, what? kathamiva, how could that possibly be? kve va , where, I should like to know?). In the Pada texts of the Ṛg , Yajur , and Atharva - veda , and by native grammarians, iva is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands, RV. ; AV. ; &c.