hasta
ha/sta m. ( ifc. f( A ). , of unknown derivation) the hand ( ifc. = ‘holding in or by the hand’; haste √ kf [as two words], ‘to take into the hand’, ‘get possession of’; haste-√ kf [as a comp. ], ‘to take by the hand, marry’; Satru-hastaM √ gam , ‘to fall into the hand of the enemy’), RV. &c. &c.