प्रेष् 1.cl. 1.
Ā. प्रेषते, to go, move,
[Dhātup. xvi, 18] (
v.l. ह्रेष्).
प्रेष् 2. (
प्र-√ इष्)
P. Ā. प्रे-ष्यति,
°ते (
Ved. inf. प्रे-षे,
[Pāṇ. 3-4, 9] Sch. ;
ind.p. प्रै॑-षम्s.v. ),
to drive on, urge, impel, send forth,
[RV.] ;
[MBh.] ;
to invite, summon, call upon (another priest to commence a recitation or a ceremony [
acc. ]
e.g. साम प्रे-ष्यति, ‘he calls upon to commence the recitation of a
सामन्’;
esp. Impv. प्रे-ष्य, ‘call upon to recite or offer [
acc. or
gen. ] to [
dat. ]’),
[ŚBr.] ;
KātyŚr. (
cf. [Pāṇ. 2-3, 61; 8-2, 91] ) :
Caus. प्रे-षयति, to hurl, fling, cast, throw,
[MBh.] ;
[R.] ;
[Bhaṭṭ.] ;
to turn or direct the eyes,
[Śak. ii, 2] (
v.l. प्रे-रयन्त्या-);
to send forth, dismiss, dispatch,
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c.;
to send into exile, banish,
[R.] ;
[Kathās.] ;
to send word, send a message to a person (
gen. ),
[R.] प्रेष् f. 3.f. pressing, pressure (with
हेम॑न्, ‘urging pressure’),
[RV. ix, 97, 1.]