cl. 2. P. ásti (2. sg. ási, 1. sg. ásmi; pl. smási or smás, sthá, sánti; (rarely Ā., e.g. 1. pl. smahe, [MBh. xiii, 13]); Subj. ásat; Imper. astu, 2. sg. edhi (fr. as-dhi cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]); Pot. syā́t; impf. ā́sīt, rarely ās [only in [RV. x]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 97]] ; perf. 1. and 3. sg., ā́sa, 2. sg. ā́sitha, 3. pl. āsúḥ; p. m. sát f. satī́) to be, live, exist, be present; to take place, happen; to abide, dwell, stay; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to fall to the share of, happen to any one (gen.); to be equal to (dat.), [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. xi, 85]; to turn out, tend towards any result, prove (with dat.); to become, [BṛĀrUp.] &c., (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 51]-[55]); to be (i.e. used as copula, but not only with adj., but also with adv. [e.g. tūṣṇīm āsīt, [MBh. iii, 4041]], and often with part., [e.g. perf. Pass. p. prasthitāḥ sma, [N.]; fut. p.p. hantavyo 'smi, [N.]; fut. p. especially with Pot., and only in [ŚBr.], as yádi dāsyán-t-syā́t, ‘if he should intend to give’]; the pf. āsa helps to form the periphrastic perf., and asmi &c. the fut.);
[cf. Gk. ἐσ-τί; Lat. es-t; Goth. is-t; Lith. es-ti.]
cl. 4. P. ásyati (p. ásyat; impf. ā́syat, [AV.] [cf. parās and vy-as]; fut. p. asiṣyát; aor. āsthat [[Nir. ii, 2]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 17]; cf. vy-as]; perf. P. āsa [cf. parās] Ā. āse [cf. vy-as]; Ved. Inf. ástave, [VS.]) to throw, cast, shoot at (loc. dat., or gen.), [RV.] &c.; to drive or frighten away, [Nalod. iv, 36]; See also 1. astá s.v.
á-sat mf(a/-satI)n. [in [RV.] seven times ásat and five times ā́sat with lengthening of the accentuated vowel] not being, not existing, unreal, [RV. vii, 134, 8]; [AV.]; [Up.]; [Kum. iv, 12]
untrue, wrong, [RV.]
bad, [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.
á-sat (n), m. Indra, [L.]
á-sat (t), n. non-existence, nonentity, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
untruth, falsehood, [RV. vii, 104, 8]
evil, [Ragh. i, 10]
á-sat (ntas), m. pl. bad or contemptible men, [MBh.] &c.
ásṛj k (once d, [TS. vii]) n. (m. or f. only, [Hariv. 9296]) blood, [RV. i, 164, 4]; [AV.] &c. [for the weak cases See asán; beside, in later language, forms like instr. ásṛjā ([R. iii, 8, 4]) and gen. ásṛjas ([Suśr.]) are found]
saffron, [L.]
ásṛj (k), m. the planet Mars;
N. of the 16th of the astrological Yogas, also called Siddhi, [L.]
(fr. a-sma), a pronom. base from which some forms (dat. ásmai, or asmaí abl. asimā́t loc. asmin) of idám (q.v.) are formed
also the base of the first person pl. acc. asmā́n [= ἡμᾶς], instr. asmā́bhis dat. asmábhyam abl. asmát, in later, language also asmat-tas [[MBh.] &c.] gen. asmā́kam [exceptionally asmā́ka, [RV. i, 173, 10]; [AV.]] loc. asmā́su
(only in comp.) thrown off, left off, set aside, given up (as grief, anger, a vow, &c.), [VP.]; [Kathās.] &c.
ásta n. home, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]
ásta m. setting (as of the sun or of luminaries), [VarBṛS.]; [Sūryas.]
‘end, death’, see asta-samaya below
the western mountain (behind which the sun is supposed to set), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
(in astron.) the seventh lunar mansion, [VarBṛ.]
ásta m. astam-√ i, astaṃ-√ gam (also Caus. See astaṃ-gamita below), or √ prāp [[Kathās.]], to go to one's eternal home, cease, vanish, perish, die, [ŚBr. xiv]; [MBh.] &c.
astaṃ-√ nī [-nayati], to lead to setting, cause to set, [MBh. iii, 17330]
asthán the base of the weak cases of ásthi, q.v., e.g. instr. asthnā, &c. (Ved. also instr. pl. asthábhis, [RV. i, 84, 13]; and n. pl. asthāni, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 76]) :
Nom. P. °yati, rarely Ā. °yate (pr. p. °yát, [RV. x, 135, 2]; [ŚBr.]; aor. āsūyīt, [ŚBr. iii]; 3. pl. asūyiṣuḥ, [Rājat.]) to murmur at, be displeased or discontented with (dat. [[ŚBr.]; [Pāṇ. i, 4, 37], &c.] or acc. [[MBh.]; [R.] &c.]) : Caus. (ind.p. asūyayitvā) to cause to be displeased, irritate, [MBh. iii, 2624] ([N.])
mfn. grumbling at, displeased with (loc.), [MBh. xiii, 513]
asakaú m. f. = asaú (see s.v. adás), only used in connection with yakáḥ and yakā́ (for yáḥ and yā́), [VS. xxiii, 22] and [23] (cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 107.])
ásita mf(A; Ved. a/siknI)n. (sita, ‘white’, appears to have been formed from this word, which is probably original, and not a compound of a and sita; cf. asura and sura), dark-coloured, black, [RV.] &c.
ásita m. the planet Saturn, [VarBṛS.]
a poisonous animal (said to be a kind of mouse), [L.]
N. of the lord of darkness and magic, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvŚr.]
of a descendant of Kaśyapa (composer of [RV. ix, 5]-[24]), named also Devala [[RAnukr.]] or Asita Devala [[MBh.]; [Hariv.]]
N. of a man (with the patron. Vārṣagaṇa), [ŚBr. xiv]
ástam ind. at home, home, [RV.] &c., especially used with verbs, e.g. ástam-√ i [ástam éti; pr. p. astaṃ-yát, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; fut. p. astam-eṣyát, [AV.]; perf. p. ástamita See below s.v.]; ástaṃ-√ gam [ástam gácchati, [AV.] &c.; perf. p. astaṃ-gata, [MBh.] &c., once in reversed order gata astaṃ, [R. i, 33, 21]] or astaṃ-√ yā [pr. p. -yāt, [Mn. iv, 37]] to go down, set, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
ásura m. a spirit, good spirit, supreme spirit (said of Varuṇa), [RV.]; [VS.]
the chief of the evil spirits, [RV. ii, 30, 4] and [vii, 99, 5]
an evil spirit, demon, ghost, opponent of the gods, [RV. viii, 96, 9]
[x]; [AV.] &c. [these Asuras are often regarded as the children of Diti by Kaśyapa See daitya; as such they are demons of the first order in perpetual hostility with the gods, and must not be confounded with the Rākṣasas or imps who animate dead bodies and disturb sacrifices]
a N. of Rāhu, [VarBṛS.] &c.
the sun, [L.]
a cloud, [Naigh.] (cf. [RV. v, 83, 6])
ásura m. pl. N. of a warrior-tribe, (g. parśv-ādi, q.v.)
ásura m. of a Vedic school
ásura [In later Sanskṛt sura has been formed from , as sita from asita, q.v.]