abhi-√ yā to go up to in a hostile manner, attack, assail, [RV. i, 174, 5] (aor. Subj. -yāsiṣat), [AV.] &c.; to go up to, approach, obtain, [MBh.] &c.; to devote one's self to take up (as pāṣaṇḍam, ‘heterodoxies’), [BhP.] : Caus. to cause to approach, send towards, [BhP.]
abhi-yā mfn. going up to, approaching, [L.]
assailing, [L.]
(said of a prince) ‘going all round’ i.e. vigilant, careful, [MBh.]