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vas

(encl.) acc. dat. gen. pl. of 2nd pers. pron. (cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 21], [24] &c.), [RV.]; &c.

(a Vedic root connected with √ 1. uṣ, q.v.; not in [Dhātup.]) cl. 6. P., uccháti (pf. uvā́sa, ūṣúḥ, [RV.] &c.; aor. avāt [?] [AV.]; avasran, [RV.]; Cond. avatsyat, [ŚBr.]; Ved. inf. vástave, -úṣi), to shine, grow bright (esp. applied to the dawn), [RV.]; to bestow by shining upon (dat.), [ib.] [i, 113, 7]; (with dūré) to drive away by shining, [ib.] [vii, 77, 4] : Caus. vāsáyati, to cause to shine, [RV.]

[cf. vasar in vasar-han; Gk. ἔαρ for ϝεσαρ; Lat. vēr &c.]

cl. 10. P. vāsayati (aor. avīvasat), to love; to cut off; to accept, take; to offer; to kill (ni-vāsita, killed), [Dhātup. xxxiii, 70] (only with prep.; see pari-√ vas; but accord. to some the Impv. vasiṣva [[RV. viii, 70, 10]] and uṣa, ‘a lover’ [[x, 95, 5]], and vásiṣṭha [[ib.] [17]] belong also to this root, which has developed an obscene meaning = Gk. κεντέω, futuere).

cl. 2. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 13]) váste (Impv. vasiṣva, [RV.]; vaddhvam, [Kauś.]; p. vásāna, once usāná and usámāna, [RV.]; pf. vavase, [Śiś.]; vāvase, p. °sāná, [RV.]; aor. avasiṣṭa, [ib.]; fut. vasitā Gr.; vasiṣyate, [ib.]; vatsyati, [Hariv. 11206]; inf. vasitum, [MBh.]; [R.]; ind.p. vasitvā, [Mn.]; [BhP.]; -vasya, [MBh.]), to put on, invest, wear, (clothes &c.), assume (a form &c.), enter into, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vāsáyati, °te (Pass. vāsyate), to cause or allow to put on or wear (clothes), clothe (Ā. ‘one's self’) with (instr.), [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [Mn.] : Desid. vivasiṣate Gr.: Intens. vāvasyate, vāvasti, [ib.]

[cf. Gk. ἕννυμι for ϝεσ-νυμι, εἷμα; Lat. vestis; Goth. wasjan; Angl.Sax. werian; Eng. wear.]

(ifc.), clothed in, wearing (e.g. preta-cūvara-vas, ‘wearing the garments of dead men’), [Ragh.]

cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 36]) vásati (mc. also °te; pf. uvāsa, ūṣuḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; p. vāvasāna, [RV. i, 46, 13]; -vāsāṃ cakre, [Up.]; aor. avātsīt, [AV.]; avāksam, [AitBr.] [where it is artificially connected with vāc]; avāstam, [Up.]; fut. vastā Gr.; vatsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; vasiṣyati, [MBh.]; inf. vastum, vasitum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. uṣitvā́, [Br.]; uṣṭvā, [MBh.]; -úṣya, [Br.] &c.), to dwell, live, stop (at a place), stay (esp. ‘overnight’, with or without rātrim or rātrīs), [RV.] &c. &c.; to remain, abide with or in (with loc. of pers.; loc. or acc. of place, esp. with vāsam or vasatim), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to remain or keep on or continue in any condition (with a pp., e.g. with channa, ‘to continue to be covered’, [KātyŚr.]; or with an acc., with brahmacaryam, ‘to practise chastity’, [AitBr.]; or with an adv., e.g. with sukham, ‘to live pleasantly or at ease’; with or without dūratas, ‘to keep aloof’), [TS.] &c. &c.; to have sexual intercourse with (loc.), [Hariv.]; to rest upon (loc.), [Subh.]; to charge or entrust with (instr.), [Hariv.]; cl. 10. P. vasayati, to dwell, [Dhātup. xxxv, 84, e] : Pass. uṣyate (aor. avāsi), to be dwelt &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. vāsáyati, °te (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 89]; aor. avīvasat, [MaitrS.] : Pass. vāsyáte, [Br.], °ti, [MBh.]), to cause to halt or stay (overnight), lodge, receive hospitably or as a guest, [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause to have sexual intercourse with (loc.), [MatsyaP.]; to let anything stand overnight (with tisro, scil. ratrīs, ‘three nights’), [Kauś.]; to cause to wait, keep in suspense, [RV.]; to delay, retard, [Kām.]; to cause to exist, preserve, [ŚBr.]; to cause to be inhabited, populate (a country), [Hit.]; to put in, place upon (loc.), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.] (anadhyāyam mukhe, to put restraint on the mouth, refrain from speaking); to produce, [Sarvad.] : Desid. vivatsati, to wish to dwell, [ŚBr.] : Intens. vāvasyate, vāvasti, to remain, be in, be engaged in [MW.]

[cf. Goth. wisan; Germ. wësan, ge-wesen, war &c.; Angl.Sax. wësan; Eng. was, were.]

vás (only in gen. vásām), prob. either ‘an abode’ or ‘a dweller’, [RV. v, 2, 6.]

(only vasiṣva, [anu] -vāvase, vāvasāná, and vástos), to rush or aim at, attack, [RV. viii, 70, 10] (cf. under √ 3. ); [viii, 4, 8]; [i, 51, 3]; [vi, 11, 6] (?); [i, 174, 3].

(also written bas) cl. 4. P. vasyati, to be or make firm, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 70.]