cl. 4. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 50]) pátyate, to be master, reign, rule, govern, control, own, possess, dispose of (acc. or instr.), [RV.]; to partake of, share in (loc.), [ib.]; to be fit or serve for (dat.), [ib.]
[Prob. Nom. of páti; cf. Lat. potiri.]
cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xx, 15]) pátati (ep. also °te; pf. papāta, paptimá, petátur, paptúr; paptivás, [RV.]; papatyāt, [AV.]; aor. apaptat, [RV.]; Pass. apāti, [Br.]; fut. patiṣyáti, [AV.]; °te, patitā, [MBh.]; Cond. apatiṣyat, [Br.]; inf. patitum, [ib.] &c. &c.; ind.p. patitvā́, [AV.]; [Br.]; -pátya or -pā́tam, [Br.]), to fly, soar, rush on [RV.] &c. &c.; to fall down or off, alight, descend (with acc. or loc.), fall or sink (with or without adhas or narake, ‘to go down to hell’; with caraṇau or °ṇayoḥ, ‘to fall at a person's feet’), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to fall (in a moral sense), lose caste or rank or position, [ChUp.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] &c.; to light or fall upon, fall to a person's share (loc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to fall or get into or among (loc.), [Kathās.]; [Hit.]; to occur, come to pass, happen, [Pañc.] : Caus. patáyati, to fly or move rapidly along, [RV.]; [VS.]; to speed (trans.; cf. patayát); °te, to drive away or throw down (?), [RV. i, 169, 7]; pātáyati (ep. also °te; aor. apīpatat, [AV.]; Pass. pātyate, [MBh.] &c.), to let fly or cause to fall, to fling, hurl, throw, [AV.] &c. &c.; to lay low, bring down (lit. and fig.), overthrow, ruin, destroy, [MBh.]; [R.] &c. to throw upon or in, lay on (loc.), [Kāv.]; [Suśr.]; (with or scil. ātmānam) to throw one's self, [MBh.]; [Mṛcch.]; to cut off (a head), [Hariv.]; to knock out (teeth), [BhP.]; to pour out or shed (water, tears), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; to kindle (fire), [Pañc.]; to cast (dice), [Hariv.]; [Kathās.]; to turn, direct, fix (eyes), [R.]; to impose or inflict (punishment), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; to set in motion, set on foot, [Rājat. v, 173]; to seduce to, betray into (loc.), [Kathās.]; (with dvedhā) to divide in two, [ŚBr.]; to subtract, [Jyot.], Sch.; (Ā.) to rush on, hasten, [RV. viii, 46, 8] : Desid. pipatiṣati ([AV.]; [MaitrS.]; [ŚBr.]) and pitsati ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54]), to be about to fly or fall: Intens. panīpatyate or pā°patīti, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 84.]
[cf. Zd. pat; Gk. πέτομαι, πί-πτω; Lat. peto.]
mfn. flying, falling (ifc.; cf. akṣi-pát).
in comp. for 3. pad.