Bakz ( prob. a secondary form fr. √ Baj , or Nom. fr. Bakza/ ; cf. also √ Bikz and BaYj ) cl. 10. P. ( Dhātup. xxxii, 22 ) Bakza/yati (rarely Ā. °te ), and in later language also cl. 1. P. Ā. ( Dhātup. xxi, 27 ) Bakzati , °te ( pf. BakzayAm Asa , MBh. &c. fut. Bakzayizyati , °te , ib. ; aor. abaBakzat , ŚBr. ; Pass. aBakzi , BhP. ; inf. Bakzayitum , MBh. , °kzitum , Pañcat. ; ind.p. BakzayitvA , MBh. ; -Bakzya , ib. ; -Bakzam , ŚāṅkhŚr. ), to eat or drink, devour, partake of (with acc. , in Ved. also with gen. ; in the older language usually of fluids, in the later only exceptionally so), RV. &c. &c.; to sting, bite, Kathās. ; to consume, use up, waste, destroy, Mn. ; MBh. &c.; to drain the resources of, impoverish, Kām. : Caus. Bakza/yati See above; to cause anything ( acc. ) to be eaten by ( acc. or instr. ), Pāṇ. i, 4, 52 , Vārtt. 7, Pat. : Desid. biBakzizati or °kzayizati , to wish to eat or devour, MBh. ; ĀpŚr. , Sch. ( cf. biBakzayizu ).
Bakz 10 U. ( Bakzayati-te, Bakzita ) 1 To eat, devour; yaTAmizaM jale matsyErBakzyate SvApadErBAvi Pt. 1. 2 To use up, consume. 3 To waste, destroy. 4 ( pb ) To bite.