vi-√ jñā P. Ā. -jānāti, -jānīte, to distinguish, discern, observe, investigate, recognize, ascertain, know, understand, [RV.] &c. &c. (with na and inf. ‘to know not how to’); to have right knowledge, [KaṭhUp.]; to become wise or learned, [Mn. iv, 20]; to hear or learn from (gen.), [ChUp.]; [MBh.]; to recognize in (loc.), [Pañcat.]; to look upon or regard or consider as (two acc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to learn or understand that (two acc. or yat), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to explain, declare, [BhP.] : Pass. -jñāyate, to be distinguished or discerned &c.; (esp. 3. sg., ‘it is known or understood’, [ŚBr.]; ‘it is recognized or prescribed’, scil. by authorities, [GṛŚrS.]; and in gram. mā vi-jñāyi with preceding nom., ‘let this not be considered as’) : Caus. -jñapayati, or -jñāpayati (rarely °te; aor. vy-ajijñapat), to make known, declare, report, communicate, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to ask or request anything, [Hariv.]; to declare or tell that (two acc.), [R.]; to apprise, teach, instruct, ask, beg (with acc. of pers.; and dat. of thing, or with artham ifc., or prati and acc.), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to inform of or about (two acc.), [Rājat.] : Pass. (only Cond. vy-ajñāpayiṣyata, with v.l. °ṣyat), to become manifest, appear, [ChUp. vii, 2, 1] : Desid. of Caus. See vi-jijñāpayiṣā below (cf. also vi-jñīpsu) : Desid. -jijñāsati, °te, to wish to understand or know &c., [TS.]; [ChUp.]