cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xx, 22]) sáhate (Ved. and ep. also °ti and exceptionally sāhati, once in [MBh.] 1. sg. sahyāmi; p. sáhat, sáhamāna [q.v.]; pf. sehe, sasāha; Ved. also sasāhé or sasahé and sāsā́ha; sāsáhat; sāsahīṣṭā́ḥ, sāsahyā́ma; p. sehāná, sāsahāná, sāsahvás or sasahvás and sāhvás [q.v.]; aor. asākṣi, sākṣi, sākṣate, [RV.]; sākṣīt, [GopBr.]; sakṣati, [AV.]; sakṣat, sā́kṣāma, [RV.]; Impv. sakṣi, sākṣva or sakṣva, [ib.]; p. sákṣat, [ib.]; ásahisṭa, [RV.]; Prec. sahyās, sāhyā́ma, [ib.]; sākṣīya, [AV.]; sāhiṣīmáhi or sahiṣīmáhi, [RV.]; fut. soḍhā, [MBh.] &c.; sahitā Gr.; sakṣyati, [MBh.], °te, [Br.]; sākṣye [?] [AV.]; -sahiṣyati, °te, [MBh.]; Cond. asahiṣyat, [ib.]; inf. sáhadhyai, [RV.]; [Kāṭh.]; sā́ḍhyai, [MaitrS.]; soḍhum, sahitum, [MBh.]; ind.p. soḍhvā, [ĀpŚr.], Sch.; sādhvā, sahitvā Gr.; -sáhya, [RV.] &c.; sáham, [Br.]), to prevail, be victorious; to overcome, vanquish, conquer, defeat (enemies), gain, win (battles), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [R.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to offer violence to (acc.), [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.] ; to master, suppress, restrain, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to be able to or capable of (inf. or loc.), [ib.]; to bear up against, resist, withstand, [AV.] &c. &c.; to bear, put up with, endure, suffer, tolerate (with na, ‘to grudge’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to be lenient towards, have patience with any one (gen.), [Bhag.]; to spare any one, [MārkP.]; [Pañcat.]; to let pass, approve anything, [Sarvad.]; (with kalam, kala-kṣepam &c.) to bide or wait patiently for the right time, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.] : Caus. or cl. 10. sāhayati (aor. asīṣahat), to forbear, [Dhātup. xxxiv, 4] : Desid. of Caus. sisāhayiṣati, [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 62] ? : Desid. sī́kṣate (p. sī́kṣat; accord. to [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 61], also sisahiṣate), to wish to overcome, [RV.]; [TS.] : Intens. sāsahyate, sāsoḍhi (cf. sāsahí or sasahí) Gr. [cf. sahas and ἴσχω for σι-σχω; ἔχω, ἔ-σχον.]
(strong form sāh) mfn. bearing, enduring, overcoming (ifc.; see abhimāti-ṣā́h &c.)
cl. 4. P. sahyati, to satisfy, delight, [Dhātup. xxvi, 20]; to be pleased, [ib.]; to bear, endure (cf. √ 1. ), [ib.]
bearing, enduring, withstanding, defying, equal to, a match for (gen. or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
causing, effecting, stimulating, exerting, [Śiś.]
able to, capable of (inf. or comp.), [Kālid.]; [Śiś.]; [Kathās.]
sahá m. the month Mārgaśīrṣa (see sahas), [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Car.]
a partic. Agni, [MBh.]
a species of plant, [AV.]
N. of a son of Manu, [Hariv.]
of a son of Prāṇa and Ūrjasvatī, [BhP.]
of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [MBh.]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa and Mādrī, [BhP.]
sahá n. = bala, [L.]
kind of salt, [L.]
sahá ind. (prob. fr. 7. sa + dhā, which in Veda may become dha; cf. 1. sadha) together with, along with, with (with √ grah and ā-√ dā, ‘to take with one’; with √ dā, ‘to give to take away with one’; with kṛtvā and acc., ‘taking with one’, ‘in the company of’; often as a prepos. governing instr. case, but generally placed after the governed word, e.g. tena saha, ‘along with him’ ; exceptionally with abl., e.g. aiśvaryāt saha, ‘with sovereignty’, [Cāṇ. 104])
in common, in company, jointly, conjointly, in concert (often used as a prefix in comp., expressing ‘community of action’, e.g. sahādhyayana, q.v.; or forming adjectives expressing ‘the companion of an action’, e.g. saha-cara, q.v.)
at the same time or simultaneously with (prefixed to adverbs of time, e.g. saha-pūrvāhṇam, q.v.; rarely ifc., e.g. vainateya-s°, ‘with Vainateya’, [Hariv.]), [RV.] &c. &c.
sáhas m. the month Mārgaśīrṣa or Agrahāyaṇa (November-December), the winter season, [VS.]; [Suśr.]; [Pur.]
sáhas n. strength, power, force, victory (sahasas putra or °saḥ sūnu m. ‘son of strength’, N. of Agni in [RV.]; sahasā ind. See below; sahobhiḥ ind. = ‘mightily, intensely’), [RV.] &c. &c.
m. (ifc. f(A). prob. fr. saha + aya cf. sahāyana; but accord. to some, a Prākṛt form of sakhāya See sakhi, p. 1130) ‘one who goes along with (another)’, a companion, follower, adherent, ally, assistant, helper in or to (loc. or comp.; ifc. ‘having as a companion or assistant, accompanied or supported by’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
(instr. of sahas), forcibly, vehemently, suddenly, quickly, precipitately, immediately, at once, unexpectedly, at random, fortuitously, in an unpremeditated manner, inconsiderately (with instr. ‘together with’).
sahásra n. (rarely) m. (perhaps fr. 7. sa + hasra = Gk. χίλιοι for χεσλοι; cf. Pers. hazār) a thousand (with the counted object in the same case sg. or pl., e.g. sahasreṇa bāhunā, ‘with a thousand arms’, [Hariv.]; sahasraṃ bhiṣajaḥ, ‘a thousand drugs’, [RV.]; or in the gen., e.g. dve sahasre suvarṇasya, ‘two thousand pieces of gold’, [Rājat.]; catvāri sahasrāṇi varṣāṇām, ‘four thousand years’, [Mn.]; sometimes in comp., either ibc., e.g. yuga-sahasram, ‘a thousand ages’, [Mn.], or ifc., e.g. sahasrāśvena, ‘with a thousand horses’; sahasram may also be used as an ind., e.g. sahasram ṛṣibhiḥ, ‘with a thousand Ṛṣis’, [RV.]; with other numerals it is used thus, ekādhikaṃ sahasram, or eka-sahasram, ‘a thousand one’, 1001; dvyadhikaṃ s°, ‘a thousand two’, 1002; ekādaśādhikam s°sahasram or ekādaśaṃ s° or ekādaśa-s°, ‘a thousand eleven’ or ‘a thousand having eleven’, 1011; viṃśaty-adhikaṃ s° or vimaṃ s°, ‘a thousand twenty’, 1020; dve sahasre or dvi-sahacram, ‘two thousand’; trīṇi sahasrāṇi or tri-sahasram, ‘three thousand’ &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.
a thousand cows or gifts (= sahasraṃ gavyam &c., used to express wealth; sahasraṃ śatāśvam, ‘a thousand cows and a hundred horses’, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]), [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] (in later language often = ‘1000 Paṇas’, e.g. [Mn. viii, 120]; [336] &c.)
any very large number (in [Naigh. iii, 1] among the bahu-nāmāni; cf. sahasra-kiraṇa &c. below)
sahásra mf(I)n. a thousandth or the thousandth (= sahasra-tama which is the better form; cf. [Pāṇ. v, 2, 57]).