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bhakṣ

(prob. a secondary form fr. √ bhaj, or Nom. fr. bhakṣá; cf. also √ bhikṣ and bhañj) cl. 10. P. ([Dhātup. xxxii, 22]) bhakṣáyati (rarely Ā. °te), and in later language also cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxi, 27]) bhakṣati, °te (pf. bhakṣayām āsa, [MBh.] &c. fut. bhakṣayiṣyati, °te, [ib.]; aor. ababhakṣat, [ŚBr.]; Pass. abhakṣi, [BhP.]; inf. bhakṣayitum, [MBh.], °kṣitum, [Pañcat.]; ind.p. bhakṣayitvā, [MBh.]; -bhakṣya, [ib.]; -bhakṣam, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]), to eat or drink, devour, partake of (with acc., in Ved. also with gen.; in the older language usually of fluids, in the later only exceptionally so), [RV.] &c. &c.; to sting, bite, [Kathās.]; to consume, use up, waste, destroy, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to drain the resources of, impoverish, [Kām.] : Caus. bhakṣáyati See above; to cause anything (acc.) to be eaten by (acc. or instr.), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], Vārtt. 7, [Pat.] : Desid. bibhakṣiṣati or °kṣayiṣati, to wish to eat or devour, [MBh.]; [ĀpŚr.], Sch. (cf. bibhakṣayiṣu).