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dasyu

dásyu m. (√ das) enemy of the gods (e.g. śámbara, śúṣṇa, cúmuri, dhúni; all conquered by Indra, Agni, &c.), impious man (called a-śraddhá, a-yajñá, á-yajyu, á-pṛṇat, a-vratá, anya-vrata, a-karmán), barbarian (called a-nā́s, or an-ā́s ‘ugly-faced’, ádhara, ‘inferior’, á-mānuṣa, ‘inhuman’), robber (called dhanín), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

any outcast or Hindū who has become so by neglect of the essential rites, [Mn.]

not accepted as a witness, [viii, 66]

cf. trasá- (dásyave vṛ́ka m. ‘wolf to the Dasyu’, N. of a man, [RV. viii, 51]; [55 f.]; dásyave sáhas n. violence to the D° (N. of Turvīti), [i, 36, 18])