(perhaps Desid. of a √ yah, from which yahu and yahva) cl. 1. P. Ā. yákṣati, °te, (prob.) to be quick, speed on (only in pra-√ yakṣ, q.v.; and once in yakṣāmas, to explain yakṣa, [R. vii, 4, 12]), cl. 10. Ā. yakṣayate, to worship, honour, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 19.]