ind. (an interjection implying joy, anger, menace, pain, affliction, recollection) Ah! Oh! &c.
cl. 2. Ā. ā́ste (and ā́sate, [AV. xi, 8, 32], &c.; Impv. 2. sg. ās-sva, āsva, and āsasva; 2. pl. ādhvam; p. āsāná, āsat [[R.]], and āsīna [see below]; āsāṃ-cakre [[Pāṇ. iii, 1, 87]]; āsiṣyate; āsiṣṭa; āsitum) to sit, sit down, rest, lie, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Śak.] &c.; to be present; to exist; to inhabit, dwell in; to make one's abode in [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [MBh.] &c.; to sit quietly, abide, remain, continue, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to cease, have an end, [Pañcat.]; [Daś.]; [Hit.] &c.; to solemnize, celebrate; to do anything without interruption; to continue doing anything; to continue in any situation; to last; (it is used in the sense of ‘continuing’, with a participle, adj., or subst., e.g. etat sāma gāyann āste, ‘he continues singing this verse’; with an indeclinable participle in tvā, ya, or am, e.g. upa-rudhya arim āsīta, ‘he should continue blockading the foe’; with an adverb, e.g. tūṣṇīm āste, ‘he continues quiet’; sukham āsva, ‘continue well’; with an inst. case, e.g. sukhenāste, ‘he continues well’; with a dat. case, e.g. āstāṃ tuṣṭaye, ‘may it be to your satisfaction’) : Caus. āsayati, to cause any one to sit down Comm. on [Pāṇ.] : Desid. Ā. āsisiṣate, [ib.];
[cf. Gk. ἧ(σ)-μαι, ἧς-ται : Lat. âsa changed to âra; â-nus for âs-nus.]
√ (ā- 2. as) P. āsyati, to throw upon, lay or put upon, [TBr.]; [Kāṭh.] : Ā. (Impv. 2. pl. ā́syadhvam) to cause to flow in, pour in [RV. x, 30, 2]; [ŚBr. i]; to put or throw on for one's self, [MaitrS.]
n. (?) mouth, face, (only in abl. and instr.) āsás (with the prep. ā), from mouth to mouth, in close proximity, [RV. vii, 99, 7]
āsā́ and āsayā́ (generally used as an adv.), before one's eyes
by word of mouth
personally
present
in one's own person
immediately, [RV. vi, 16, 9], &c.