*Dassati¹

to see, to perceive.

1. (pres.) base dakkh [Sk. drakṣ]: pres.

   1. dakkhati Cnd.428 (= passati), 1st dakkhāmi ibid. (= passāmi) second dakkhasi SN.i.116; Pv.ii.1#13 (variant reading BB adakkhi) imper. dakkha Cnd.428 (= passa)
   2. dakkhiti Snp.909 (variant reading BB dakkhati), 3rd pl. dakkhinti Vin.i.16≈ Snp.p.15 (variant reading BB dakkhanti); DN.i.46
      aor addakkhi (Sk adrakṣīt) Vin.ii.195; SN.i.117; Snp.208 (= addasa Snp-a.257), Snp.841, Snp.1131; Iti.47; Ja.iii.189; & dakkhi Iti.47; 1st sg. addakkhiṃ Snp.938. Spelling also adakkhi (variant reading BB at Pv.ii.1#13) & adakkhiṃ (Cnd.423)
      inf dakkhituṃ Vin.i.179
      caus p.p. dakkhāpita (shown, exhibited) Mil.119
      ■ Der. dakkhin (q.v.).

2. (pret.) base dass (Sk. darś & draś): aor.

   1. addasa (Sk. adarśat) Snp.358, Snp.679, Snp.1016; Ja.i.222; Ja.iv.2; Pv.ii.3#23 (mā addasa = addakkhiṃ Pv-a.88); Dhp-a.i.26; Pv-a.73 & (older, cp. agamā); addasā Vin.ii.192, Vin.ii.195; DN.i.112 DN.ii.16; Snp.409 (variant reading BB addasa), Snp.910 (id.); Mil.24, 1st sg. addasaṃ SN.i.101; Cnd.423 & addasaṃ Snp.837 (= adakkhiṃ Mnd.185), 1st pl. addasāma Snp.31, Snp.178, Snp.459, 3rd pl. (mā) addasuṃ Pv.ii.7#6 (= mā passiṃsu Pv-a.102).
   2. addasāsi, 1st sg. addasāsiṃ Snp.937, Snp.1145; Vv.35#52 (variant reading addasāmi), 3rd pl. addasāsuṃ Vin.ii.195; DN.ii.16; MN.i.153
   3. shortened forms of aor. are: adda Thag.986; addā Ja.vi.125, Ja.vi.126
      inf daṭṭhuṃ Snp.685 (daṭṭhukāma); Ja.i.290; Pv.iv.1#3 (= passituṃ Pv-a.219); Pv-a.48, Pv-a.79; Vv-a.75
      ger daṭṭhu (= Sk. dṛṣṭvā) Snp.424 (in phrase nekkhammaṃ daṭṭhu khemato) = Snp.1098; Snp.681 Expl. at Cnd.292 with expl. of disvā = passitvā, etc. grd. daṭṭhabba (to be regarded as) DN.ii.154; Pv-a.8, Pv-a.9 Pv-a.10, etc., Vism.464; & dassanīya (see sep.). Also in Caus. (see below) & in daṭṭhar (q.v.).

3. (med-pass.) base diss (Sk. dṛś): pres. pass. dissati (to be seen, to appear) Vin.i.16; Snp.194, Snp.441, Snp.688 (dissare), Snp.956; Ja.i.138; Dhp.304; Pv.i.8#4; Pv-a.61 (dissasi you look, intrs.); ppr. dissamāna (visible) Pv-a.71, Pv-a.6 (˚rūpa), Pv-a.162 (id.); Vv-a.78 (˚kāya); Mvu.vii.35, & der; dissamānatta (nt.) (visibility) Pv-a.103
   ger disvā Snp.48, Snp.409, Snp.687 sq. Iti.76; Pv-a.67, Pv-a.68, etc., & disvāna Vin.i.15; Vin.ii.195; Snp.299, Snp.415, Snp.1017; Pv.ii.8#7, etc., also a ger. form diṭṭhā, q.v. under adiṭṭhā
   pp diṭṭha (q.v.).

4. caus (of base 2) dasseti (Sk. darśayati),
   aor dassesi & (exceptional); dassayi, only in dassayi tumaṃ showed himself at Pv.iii.2#4 (= attānaṃ uddisayi Pv-a.181) & Pv.iii.2#16 (= attānaṃ dassayi dassesi pākaṭo ahosi Pv-a.185). 3rd pl. dassesuṃ;
   ger dassetvā;
   inf dassetuṃ to point out, exhibit, explain, intimate Dhp.83; Ja.i.84, Ja.i.200, Ja.i.263, Ja.i.266; Ja.ii.128, Ja.ii.159; Ja.iii.53, Ja.iii.82; Pv-a.4, Pv-a.8 Pv-a.16 (ovādaṃ d. give advice), Pv-a.24, Pv-a.45, Pv-a.73 etc
   ■ to point to (acc.) Pv-a.151 (sunakhaṃ), Pv-a.257 (dārakaṃ)
   ■ to make manifest, to make appear, to show or prove oneself; also intr. to appear Ja.ii.154 (dubbalo viya hutvā attānaṃ dassesi: appeared weak); Ja.vi.116; Pv.iii.2#3 (= sammukhībhāvaṃ gacchanti Pv-a.181); Pv-a.13 (mitto viya attānaṃ dassetvā: acting like a friend) Mil.271. Esp. in phrase attānaṃ dasseti to come into appearance (of Petas): Pv-a.32, Pv-a.47, Pv-a.68, Pv-a.79, etc. (cp above dassayi)
   pp dassita.

Sk. *darś in dadarśa pref. to dṛś; caus. darśayati. Cp. Gr. δέρκομαι to see; Oir. derc eye; Ags torht; Goth. ga-tarhjan to make conspicuous. The regular Pāli Pres. is dakkhiti (younger dakkhati), a new formation from the aor. addakkhi = Sk. adrākṣīt The Sk. Fut. draksyati would correspond formally to dakkhati, but the older dakkhiti points toward derivation from addakkhi. This new Pres. takes the function of the Fut.; whereas the Caus. dasseti implies a hypothetical Pres. *dassati. On dakkhati, etc. see also Kuhn, Beitr. p. 116; Trenckner, Notes pp. 57, 61 Pischel, Prk. Gr. § 554

Dassati²

fut. of dadāti, q.v.