1. paS only Pres. P. Ā. pa/Syati , °te ( cf. √ dfS and Pāṇ. vii, 3, 78 ), to see (with na ‘to be blind’), behold, look at, observe, perceive, notice, RV. &c. &c.; to be a spectator, look on ( esp. p. , e.g. tasya paSyataH , while he looks on, before his eyes, Mn. ; paSyantI tizWati , she stands and looks on Śak. ); to see a person (either ‘visit’ or ‘receive as a visitor’), MBh. ; R. &c.; to live to see, experience, partake of, undergo, incur, Mn. ; MBh. &c.; to learn, find out, ib. ; to regard or consider as, take for ( acc. with acc. or adv. in vat ), ib. ; to see with the spiritual eye, compose, invent (hymns, rites &c.), RV. ; Br. ; ŚāṅkhŚr. ; (also with sADu ) to have insight or discernment, Mn. ; MBh. &c.; to consider, think over, examine, ib. ; to foresee, ib. ; ( paSyAmi , ‘I see or l am convinced’, and paSya , °Syata , ‘see, behold, look here!’ often employed parenthetically or interjectionally, MBh. ; Kāv. &c.) [ Orig. identical with √ spaS , q.v. ]
3. paS cl. 10. P. pASayati , to fasten, bind, Dhātup. xxxiii, 45.