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1. daMs cl. 1. 10. See √ 1. daMS .
2. daMs cl. 10. ( Subj. 2. sg. °sa/yas , nom. pl. of °si/ , Nir. iv, 25 ) to destroy (?), RV. x, 138, 1 ; cl. 1. P. cl. 10. Ā. (for 2. daMS ) to bite, Dhātup.
( accord. to some fr. √ daMs , ‘to make straight’, either ‘to raise, erect’, or ‘to put right, rule, guide, manage’; in some places probably = ‘a guide, manager, institutor’).