Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
ind. 1 An interjection showing (a) reproof; (b) severity; (c) command; (d) casting, send- ing.
2 An irregular verbal form of the 3rd. pers. sing. Pres. of a de- fective verb meaning ‘to say,’ or ‘to speak’ (supposed by Indian grammarians to be derived from brū and by European scholars from ah; the only forms of the root existing in the language are: āttha, āhathuḥ, āha, āhatuḥ, and āhuḥ).
