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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pyai (प्यै).—1 Ā. (pyāyate, pīna)

1) To grow, increase, swell; अताय्यस्योत्तमं सत्त्वमप्यायि कृतकृत्यवत् (atāyyasyottamaṃ sattvamapyāyi kṛtakṛtyavat) Bhaṭṭikāvya 6.33.

2) To become full or exuberant.

3) To overfill, surcharge. -Caus. (pyāyayati-te)

1) To increase, enlarge, make fat or comfortable; यैः कृतः (yaiḥ kṛtaḥ)...... क्षयी चाप्यायितः सोमः (kṣayī cāpyāyitaḥ somaḥ) Manusmṛti 9.314.

2) To gratify, regale.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pyai (प्यै).—[(ṅa)pyaiṅ] r. 1st cl. (pyāyate) 1. To grow or increase. 2. To swell. Caus. (pyāyayati-te) With ā to make comfortable. 2. To enlarge.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pyai (प्यै).—and pyāy Pyay (developed out of vedic pī), i. 1, [Ātmanepada.] To be exuberant, to increase. Ptcple. of the pf. pass. I. pyāna. Ii. pīna, Fat, bulky, corpulent, [Rāmāyaṇa] 1, 1, 13. Iii. pyāyita.

— With the prep. ā ā, 1. To increase, Mahābhārata 14, 989. 2. To cause to prosper, 5, 508. āpīna, Full, abounding in milk, Mahābhārata 1, 3934. n. An udder, [Raghuvaṃśa, (ed. Stenzler.)] 2, 18. [Causal.] pyāyaya, 1. To augment, Mahābhārata 3, 13542. 2. To nourish, [Lassen, Anthologia Sanskritica.] 59. 14. 3. To refresh, [Meghadūta, (ed. Gildemeister.)] 45. 5. To encourage, Mahābhārata 12, 10148. āpyāyita, Fattened, strengthened, [Pañcatantra] 9, 4.

— With samā sam-ā, To increase. [Causal.] To refresh, to animate, Mahābhārata 3, 8725.

— Akin are probably [Anglo-Saxon.] faett, O.H.G feizt.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pyai (प्यै):—or pyāy [class] 1. [Ātmanepada] ([Dhātupāṭha xxii, 68; xiv, 17]) pyāyate ([perfect tense] papye [grammar]; [Aorist] apyāyi, [ib.]; apyāsam, [Aitareya-āraṇyaka]; Prec. pyāyiṣīmahi or pyāsiṣīmahi, [Atharva-veda; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Brāhmaṇa]; [future] pyāsyate or pyāyiṣyate [grammar]; pyātā, pyāyitā, [ib.]),

—to swell, be exuberant, overflow:—[Causal] pyāyayati, te, [Atharva-veda] etc.;

— ([Passive voice] pyāyyate, [Brāhmaṇa]) to make overflow, fill up (mostly in [compound] with ā- See ā-pyai; cf. √pi, pī).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pyai (प्यै):—(ṅa) pyāyate 1. d. To increase.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Ends with: Abhipyai, Apyai, Prapyai, Samapyai, Tuppyai, Utpyai.

Full-text (+22): Pyay, Pivan, Apina, Pivara, Utpyai, Utpina, Pya, Prapin, Prapyata, Prapyayana, Apyayanashila, Apinavat, Samapyayita, Pinata, Prapina, Prapyayaniya, Apyayin, Apyayya, Apyayani, Prapyana.

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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)

Rig Veda 9.6.7 < [Sukta 6]

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Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)

Kāṇḍa III, adhyāya 4, brāhmaṇa 3 < [Third Kāṇḍa]

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