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शृङ्गा॑णी॒वेच्छृ॒ङ्गिणां॒ सं द॑दृश्रे च॒षाल॑वन्तः॒ स्वर॑वः पृथि॒व्याम्
वा॒घद्भि॑र्वा विह॒वे श्रोष॑माणा अ॒स्माँ अ॑वन्तु पृत॒नाज्ये॑षु
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śŕ̥ṅgāṇīvéc chr̥ṅgíṇāṃ sáṃ dadr̥śre
caṣā́lavantaḥ sváravaḥ pr̥thivyā́m
vāghádbhir vā vihavé śróṣamāṇāḥ-
asmā́m̐ avantu pr̥tanā́jyeṣu
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śṛṅgāṇiivafrom śŕ̥ṅga-
from śr̥ṅgín-
from sám
from √dr̥ś-
from sváru-
from pr̥thivī́-
from vāghát-
from vā
from √śruṣ-
from √avⁱ-
from pr̥tanā́jya-
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Those Stakes upon the earth with rings that deck them seem to the eye like horns of horned creatures; Or, as upraised by priests in invocation, let them assist us in the rush to battle.
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Like horns of horned animals the sacrificial posts with their head-pieces 1 are seen on the earth. Hearing (us) in the emulating call of the invoking (priests) may they protect us in the racings of battles.
| Source index | Surface | Lemma | Information |
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| 3.8.10 | śŕ̥ṅgāṇi | śŕ̥ṅga- śṛṅga : n. (perhaps connected with śiras, śīrṣan; ifc. f(A or I). ) the horn of an animal, a horn used for various purposes (as in drinking, for blowing, drawing blood from the skin &c.), [RV.] &c. &c. śṛṅga : the tusk of an elephant, [R.]; [Kām.] śṛṅga : the top or summit of a mountain, a peak, crag, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. śṛṅga : the summit of a building, pinnacle, turret, [ib.] śṛṅga : any peak or projection or lofty object, elevation, point, end, extremity, [AV.]; [Kum.]; [Gīt.] śṛṅga : a cusp or horn of the moon, [R.]; [Hariv.]; [VarBṛS.] śṛṅga : highest point, acme, height or perfection of anything, [Hariv. 6424] śṛṅga : the horn as a symbol of self reliance or strength or haughtiness, [Ragh.] śṛṅga : the rising of desire, excess of love or passion (cf. śṛṅgāra), [Sāh.] śṛṅga : a partic. military array in the form of a horn or crescent, [MBh. vi, 2413] śṛṅga : a syringe, water-engine, [Ragh.]; [Śiś.] śṛṅga : the female breast, [BhP.] śṛṅga : a lotus, [L.] śṛṅga : Agallochum, [L.] śṛṅga : a mark, token, sign, [L.] śṛṅga : = śaśaśṛṅga, ‘hare's horn’, anything impossible or extra ordinary, [Kusum.] śṛṅga : m. a kind of medicinal or poisonous plant, [L.] śṛṅga : N. of a Muni (of whom, in some parts of India, on occasions of drought, earthen images are said to be made and worshipped for rain), [MW.] śṛṅga : [cf. Lat. cornu; Goth. háurn; Germ., Eng. horn.] 🔎 śŕ̥ṅga- | nominal stemPLNNOM |
| 3.8.10 | iva iva : ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā) iva : as it were, as if (e.g. patheva, as if on a path) iva : in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion) iva : nearly, almost, about (e.g. muhūrtam iva, almost an hour) iva : so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction, e.g. īṣad iva, just a little; kiṃcid iva, just a little bit: and after a negation, e.g. na cirād iva, very soon). is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb (e.g. kim iva, what? katham iva, how could that possibly be? kveva, where, I should like to know?). In the Pada texts of the Ṛg, Yajur, and Atharva-veda, and by native grammarians, is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands, [RV.]; [AV.]; &c. 🔎 iva | iva iva : ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā) iva : as it were, as if (e.g. patheva, as if on a path) iva : in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion) iva : nearly, almost, about (e.g. muhūrtam iva, almost an hour) iva : so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction, e.g. īṣad iva, just a little; kiṃcid iva, just a little bit: and after a negation, e.g. na cirād iva, very soon). is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb (e.g. kim iva, what? katham iva, how could that possibly be? kveva, where, I should like to know?). In the Pada texts of the Ṛg, Yajur, and Atharva-veda, and by native grammarians, is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands, [RV.]; [AV.]; &c. 🔎 iva | invariable |
| 3.8.10 | ít it : ifc. going, going towards it : cf. arthét it : (for 2. See s.v.) it : (in Gr.) an indicatory letter or syllable attached to roots &c. (= anubandha, q.v.) it : for the Ved. particle id, q.v. 🔎 ít | íd id : íd ind. Ved. (probably the neut. form of the pronom. base i See 3. i; a particle of affirmation) even, just, only id : indeed, assuredly (especially, in strengthening an antithesis, e.g. yáthā váśanti devā́s táthéd asat, as the gods wish it, thus indeed it will be, [RV. viii, 28, 4]; dípsanta íd ripávo nā́ha debhuḥ, the enemies wishing indeed to hurt were in nowise able to hurt, [RV. i, 147, 3]). is often added to words expressing excess or exclusion (e.g. viśva it, every one indeed; śaśvad it, constantly indeed; eka it, one only). At the beginning of sentences it often adds emphasis to pronouns, prepositions, particles (e.g. tvam it, thou indeed; yadi it, if indeed, &c.) occurs often in the Ṛg-veda and Atharva-veda, seldom in the Brāhmaṇas, and its place is taken in classical Sanskṛt by eva and other particles. 🔎 íd | invariable |
| 3.8.10 | śr̥ṅgíṇām | śr̥ṅgín- śṛṅgin : śṛṅgín mfn. horned, crested, peaked (ifc. having horns of -), [RV.] &c. &c. śṛṅgin : tusked, [MBh.] śṛṅgin : having a sting (see viṣa-śṛ°) śṛṅgin : breasted (in cāru-śṛ°, beautifully breasted), [BhP.] śṛṅgin : śṛṅgín m. ‘a horned or tusked animal’, a bull, [L.] śṛṅgin : elephant, [L.] śṛṅgin : a mountain, [L.] śṛṅgin : Ficus Infectoria, [L.] śṛṅgin : Spondias Mangifera, [L.] śṛṅgin : a partic. bulbous plant (= vṛṣabha), [L.] śṛṅgin : N. of a mythical mountain or mountain-range forming one of the boundaries of the earth (see śaila), [VP.] śṛṅgin : of a Ṛṣi, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] 🔎 śr̥ṅgín- | nominal stemPLMGEN |
| 3.8.10 | sám sam : or stam cl. 1. P. samati or stamati, to be disturbed (accord. to some ‘to be undisturbed’; cf. √ śam), [Dhātup. xix, 82]; cl. 10. P. samayati or stamayati, to be agitated or disturbed, [Vop.] sam : sám ind. (connected with 7. sa and sama, and opp. to 3. vi, q.v.) with, together with, along with, together, altogether (used as a preposition or prefix to verbs and verbal derivatives, like Gk. σύν, Lat. con, and expressing ‘conjunction’, ‘union’, ‘thoroughness’, ‘intensity’, ‘completeness’ e.g. saṃ√ yuj, ‘to join together’; saṃ-√ dhā, ‘to place together’; saṃ-dhi, ‘placing together’; saṃ-√ tap, ‘to consume utterly by burning’; sam-uccheda, ‘destroying altogether, complete destruction’; in Ved. the verb connected with it has sometimes to be supplied, e.g. ā́po agním yaśásaḥ sáṃ hí pūrvī́ḥ, ‘for many glorious waters surrounded Agni’; it is sometimes prefixed to nouns in the sense of sama, ‘same’; cf. samartha), [RV.] &c.; 🔎 sám | sám sam : or stam cl. 1. P. samati or stamati, to be disturbed (accord. to some ‘to be undisturbed’; cf. √ śam), [Dhātup. xix, 82]; cl. 10. P. samayati or stamayati, to be agitated or disturbed, [Vop.] sam : sám ind. (connected with 7. sa and sama, and opp. to 3. vi, q.v.) with, together with, along with, together, altogether (used as a preposition or prefix to verbs and verbal derivatives, like Gk. σύν, Lat. con, and expressing ‘conjunction’, ‘union’, ‘thoroughness’, ‘intensity’, ‘completeness’ e.g. saṃ√ yuj, ‘to join together’; saṃ-√ dhā, ‘to place together’; saṃ-dhi, ‘placing together’; saṃ-√ tap, ‘to consume utterly by burning’; sam-uccheda, ‘destroying altogether, complete destruction’; in Ved. the verb connected with it has sometimes to be supplied, e.g. ā́po agním yaśásaḥ sáṃ hí pūrvī́ḥ, ‘for many glorious waters surrounded Agni’; it is sometimes prefixed to nouns in the sense of sama, ‘same’; cf. samartha), [RV.] &c.; 🔎 sám | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 3.8.10 | dadr̥śre | √dr̥ś- dṛś : (Pres. forms supplied by √ paś, q.v.; pf. P. dadárśa, [RV.] &c. [2. sg. dadarśitha and dadraṣṭha, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 65]]; Ā. dadṛśé, [AV.] [dádṛśe, 3. pl. °dṛśre, [RV.]; °śrire, [TBr.]]; p. P. dadṛśvás, [RV.]; °śivas, [Up.]; darśivas, q.v. ; Ā. dádṛśāna, [RV.]; fut. P. drakṣyáti, [Br.] &c.; Ā. °ṣyate and fut. 2. draṣṭā, [MBh.]; aor. P. adarśam, °śas, °śat, 3. pl. °śur, [Br.]; 1. pl. adarśma, [TS.]; adṛśma, [JaimBr.]; Subj. darśam, °śat, °śathas, [RV.]; [AV.]; Ā. 3. pl. ádṛśran, [VS.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; °śram, [RV.]; p. dṛśāná or dṛ́śāna [cf. s.v.] [RV.]; P. dṛśan, 3. pl. ádṛśan, [Br.]; Pot. dṛśéyam, [RV.]; °śema, [AV.]; P. adrākṣit and adrāk, [Br.]; Ā. 3. pl. ádṛkṣata; Subj. 2. sg. dṛ́kṣase, [RV.]; inf. dṛśé and dṛśáye, [RV.]; dráṣṭum, [AV.] &c.; ind.p. dṛṣṭvā́, [AV.] &c. [[MBh.] also dṛśya], °ṭvāya, [RV.]; -dṛ́śya, [RV.]; -darśam, [Daś.]) to see, behold, look at, regard, consider, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to see i.e. wait on, visit, [MBh.]; [R.]; to see with the mind, learn, understand, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to notice, care for, look into, try, examine, [Yājñ.]; [Pañc.]; to see by divine intuition, think or find out, compose, contrive (hymns, rites, &c.), [Br.]; [Nir. ii, 11] : Pass. dṛśyáte (ep. also °ti) aor. adárśi, [RV.] &c. to be seen, become visible, appear, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be shown or manifested, appear as (iva), prove, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. P. Ā. darśayati, °te, [AV.] &c.; aor. adīdṛśat, [Br.]; adadarśat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 7], to cause to see or be seen, to show a thing (Ā. esp. of something belonging to one's self) or person (P. and Ā. with or scil. ātmānam, also one's self), to (acc. [AV. iv, 20, 6]; [ŚBr.] &c.; gen. [Mn. iv, 59]; [MBh.] &c.; dat. [R. ii, 31, 33]; [Ragh.] &c.; instr. after Ā. refl, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 53], [Kāś.]); to show = prove, demonstrate, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to produce (money) i.e. pay, [Mn. viii, 155]; (a witness), [158] : Desid. Ā. didṛkṣate (ep. also °ti) to wish to see, long for (acc.), [RV. iii, 30, 13]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.: Desid. of Caus. didarśayiṣati, to wish to show, [Śaṃk.]; adidarśayiṣīt, [Nid.] : Intens. darīdṛśyate, to be always visible, [Bhojapr.]; darīdarṣṭi or daridarṣṭi or dard°, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 90]; [91]. dṛś : [cf. Gk. δέρκομαι, δέδορκα, ἔδρακον; Goth. tarhjan.] dṛś : dṛ́ś m. (nom. k, Ved. ṅ, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 83]) seeing, viewing, looking at dṛś : knowing, discerning, [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c. (ifc. cf. āyurveda-d°, diṣṭa-d°, pṛthag-d°, mántra-d°, sama-d°, sarva-d°, sūrya-d°) dṛś : dṛ́ś f. sight, view (dat. dṛśé as inf. cf. √ 1. ) dṛś : look, appearance (in ī-d°, kī-d°, tā-d°) dṛś : dṛ́ś f. the eye, [R.]; [Var.] &c. (also n., [BhP. iv, 4, 24]) dṛś : dṛ́ś f. theory, doctrine, [Vcar.] dṛś : (astrol.) the aspect of a planet or the observed spot. [cf. Gk. δρα for δρακ in ὑπόδρα.] 🔎 √dr̥ś- | rootPLPRFMED3IND |
| 3.8.10 | caṣā́lavantaḥ | caṣā́lavant- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 3.8.10 | sváravaḥ | sváru- svaru : sváru m. (of doubtful derivation) a large piece of wood cut from the trunk of a tree, stake, (esp.) sacrificial post or a strip of wood from it, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [KātyŚr.] svaru : a sacrifice, [L.] svaru : sunshine, [L.] svaru : a thunderbolt, [L.] svaru : an arrow, [L.] svaru : a kind of scorpion, [L.] 🔎 sváru- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 3.8.10 | pr̥thivyā́m | pr̥thivī́- pṛthivī : pṛthivī́ f. (= pṛthvī f. of pṛthu) the earth or wide world (‘the broad and extended One’, personified as devī and often invoked together with the sky [cf. 3. div and dyāvā-pṛthivī, [RTL. 182]]; according to [VP.] daughter of pṛthu; the Veda makes 3 earths, one called bhūmi, inhabited by men, and 2 under it; there is also an earth between the world of men and the circumambient ocean [[ŚBr.]] and one extending through the 3 worlds [[Naigh.]]), [RV.] &c. &c. pṛthivī : land, ground, soil, [ib.] pṛthivī : earth regarded as one of the elements, [Prab.]; [Suśr.] pṛthivī : = antarikṣa, [Naigh. i, 3] 🔎 pr̥thivī́- | nominal stemSGFLOC |
| 3.8.10 | vāghádbhiḥ | vāghát- vāghat : vāghát m. (prob. fr. a √ vāgh = vāh = vah; cf. Ved. inf. vā́he) the institutor of a sacrifice, [RV.] (accord. to [Nigh.] = ṛtvij, or medhāvin). 🔎 vāghát- | nominal stemPLMINS |
| 3.8.10 | vā vā : f. going vā : hurting vā : an arrow vā : weaving vā : ind. or (excluded, like the Lat. ve, from the first place in a sentence, and generally immediately following, rarely and only m.c. preceding, the word to which it refers), [RV.] &c. &c. (often used in disjunctive sentences; vā-vā, ‘either’ — ‘or’, ‘on the one side’ — ‘on the other’; na vā — or na — , ‘neither’ — ‘nor’; vā na-vā, ‘either not’ — ‘or’; yadi vā-vā, ‘whether’ — ‘or’; in a sentence containing more than two members is nearly always repeated, although if a negative is in the first clause it need not be so repeated; is sometimes interchangeable with ca and api, and is frequently combined with other particles, esp. with atha, atho, uta, kim, yad, yadi, q.v. [e.g. atha vā, ‘or else’]; it is also sometimes used as an expletive) vā : either-or not, optionally, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c. (in gram. is used in a rule to denote its being optional, e.g. [Pāṇ. i, 2, 13]; [35] &c.) vā : as, like (= iva), [PārGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c. vā : just, even, indeed, very (= eva, laying stress on the preceding word), [KātyŚr.]; [Kāv.] vā : but even if, even supposing (followed by a future), [Pañc. v, 36/37] vā : however, nevertheless, [Bādar.]; [Bālar.] vā : (after a rel. or interr.) possibly, perhaps, I dare say, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (e.g. kiṃ vā śakuntalety asya mātur ākhyā, ‘is his mother's name perhaps Śakuntalā?’, [Śak. vii, 20/21]; ko vā or ke vā followed by a negative may in such cases be translated by ‘every one, all’ e.g. ke vā na syuḥ paribhava-padaṃ niṣphalāram-bha-yatnāḥ, ‘everybody whose efforts are fruitless is an object of contempt’, [Megh. 55]). vā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 42]) vā́ti (pf. vavau, [Br.]; [MBh.] &c.; aor. avāsīt, [Br.]; fut. vāsyati, [Megh.]; inf. vātum, [Hariv.]), to blow (as the wind), [RV.] &c. &c.; to procure or bestow anything (acc.) by blowing, [RV. i, 89, 4]; to blow towards or upon (acc.), [MBh. xii, 2798]; to emit an odour, be diffused (as perfume), [ŚBr.]; to smell (trans.), [Vikr. iv, 41] (v.l.); to hurt, injure, [Vop.] : Caus. vāpayati, see nir-√ vā and cf. vājaya: Desid. vivāsati See √ 1. van. vā : [cf. Gk. ἄημι for ϝαημι; Lat. ventus; Slav. vejati; Goth. waian, winds; Germ. wâjan, wæjen, wehen, Wind; Angl.Sax. wâwan; Eng. wind.] 🔎 vā | vā vā : f. going vā : hurting vā : an arrow vā : weaving vā : ind. or (excluded, like the Lat. ve, from the first place in a sentence, and generally immediately following, rarely and only m.c. preceding, the word to which it refers), [RV.] &c. &c. (often used in disjunctive sentences; vā-vā, ‘either’ — ‘or’, ‘on the one side’ — ‘on the other’; na vā — or na — , ‘neither’ — ‘nor’; vā na-vā, ‘either not’ — ‘or’; yadi vā-vā, ‘whether’ — ‘or’; in a sentence containing more than two members is nearly always repeated, although if a negative is in the first clause it need not be so repeated; is sometimes interchangeable with ca and api, and is frequently combined with other particles, esp. with atha, atho, uta, kim, yad, yadi, q.v. [e.g. atha vā, ‘or else’]; it is also sometimes used as an expletive) vā : either-or not, optionally, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c. (in gram. is used in a rule to denote its being optional, e.g. [Pāṇ. i, 2, 13]; [35] &c.) vā : as, like (= iva), [PārGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c. vā : just, even, indeed, very (= eva, laying stress on the preceding word), [KātyŚr.]; [Kāv.] vā : but even if, even supposing (followed by a future), [Pañc. v, 36/37] vā : however, nevertheless, [Bādar.]; [Bālar.] vā : (after a rel. or interr.) possibly, perhaps, I dare say, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (e.g. kiṃ vā śakuntalety asya mātur ākhyā, ‘is his mother's name perhaps Śakuntalā?’, [Śak. vii, 20/21]; ko vā or ke vā followed by a negative may in such cases be translated by ‘every one, all’ e.g. ke vā na syuḥ paribhava-padaṃ niṣphalāram-bha-yatnāḥ, ‘everybody whose efforts are fruitless is an object of contempt’, [Megh. 55]). vā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 42]) vā́ti (pf. vavau, [Br.]; [MBh.] &c.; aor. avāsīt, [Br.]; fut. vāsyati, [Megh.]; inf. vātum, [Hariv.]), to blow (as the wind), [RV.] &c. &c.; to procure or bestow anything (acc.) by blowing, [RV. i, 89, 4]; to blow towards or upon (acc.), [MBh. xii, 2798]; to emit an odour, be diffused (as perfume), [ŚBr.]; to smell (trans.), [Vikr. iv, 41] (v.l.); to hurt, injure, [Vop.] : Caus. vāpayati, see nir-√ vā and cf. vājaya: Desid. vivāsati See √ 1. van. vā : [cf. Gk. ἄημι for ϝαημι; Lat. ventus; Slav. vejati; Goth. waian, winds; Germ. wâjan, wæjen, wehen, Wind; Angl.Sax. wâwan; Eng. wind.] 🔎 vā | invariable |
| 3.8.10 | vihavé | vihavá- vihava : vi-hava &c. See vi-√ hve, p. 1004. vihava : vi-havá m. invocation, [RV.]; [AitBr.] 🔎 vihavá- | nominal stemSGMLOC |
| 3.8.10 | śróṣamāṇāḥ | √śruṣ- śruṣ : a collateral form of √ 1. śru, and appearing in the verbal forms śroṣan, śroṣantu, śroṣamāṇa, and in śrauṣṭi &c. śruṣ : [cf. Lith. kláusti; Slav. sluchǔ.] 🔎 √śruṣ- | rootPLMNOMPRSMEDnon-finite:PTCP |
| 3.8.10 | asmā́n | ahám aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c. aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.] aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az]. 🔎 ahám | pronounPLACC |
| 3.8.10 | avantu | √avⁱ- av : cl. 1. P. ávati (Imper. 2. sg. avatāt, [RV. viii, 2, 3], p. ávat; impf. ā́vat, 2. sg. 1. ā́vaḥ [for 2. ā́vaḥ See √ vṛ]; perf. 3. sg. āva, 2. pl. āvá, [RV. viii, 7, 18], 2. sg. ā́vitha; aor. ávīt, 2. sg. ávīs, avīs and aviṣas, Imper. aviṣṭu, 2. sg. aviḍḍhí [once, [RV. ii, 17, 8]] or aviḍḍhi [six times in [RV.]], 2. du. aviṣṭam, 3. du. aviṣṭām, 2. pl. aviṣṭánā, [RV. vii, 18, 25] Prec. 3. sg. avyās, Inf. ávitave, [RV. vii, 33, 1]; Ved. ind.p. āvyā, [RV. i, 166, 13]) to drive, impel, animate (as a car or horse), [RV.]; Ved. to promote, favour, (chiefly Ved.) to satisfy, refresh; to offer (as a hymn to the gods), [RV. iv, 44, 6]; to lead or bring to (dat.: ūtáye, vā́ja-sātaye, kṣatrā́ya, svastáye), [RV.]; (said of the gods) to be pleased with, like, accept favourably (as sacrifices, prayers or hymns), [RV.], (chiefly said of kings or princes) to guard, defend, protect, govern, [BhP.]; [Ragh. ix, 1]; [VarBṛS.] &c.: Caus. (only impf. āvayat, 2. sg. āvayas) to consume, devour, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] av : [cf. Gk. ἀίω; Lat. aveo ?]. 🔎 √avⁱ- | rootPLPRSACT3IMP |
| 3.8.10 | pr̥tanā́jyeṣu | pr̥tanā́jya- | nominal stemPLNLOC |