1. to see-Pres. passati Vin.i.322; SN.i.69 SN.i.132, SN.i.198; SN.ii.29; Snp.313, Snp.647, Snp.953, Snp.1063, Snp.1142 (cp. Cnd.428); Pv.i.2#3; Mil.218; Pv-a.11, Pv-a.102; 1^st pl. passāma Snp.76, Snp.153, Snp.164; Pv.i.10#1 (as future); imper. sg. passa Snp.435, Snp.580, Snp.588, Snp.756; Ja.i.223; Ja.ii.159; Pv.ii.1#16, Pv.ii.1#19 Pv-a.38; pl. passatha SN.ii.25; Snp.176 sq., Snp.777, & passavho (cp. Sk. paśyadhvaṃ) Snp.998
   ppr passaṃ (see Geiger,

   Pali Grammar

   § 97#2) MN.ii.9; Snp.739, Snp.837, Snp.909; passanto Ja.iii.52; Pv-a.5, Pv-a.6; f. passantī SN.i.199
   grd passitabba Ja.iv.390 (a˚)
   fut passissati Pv.ii.4#6 Pv-a.6
   aor passi Ja.ii.103, Ja.ii.111; Ja.iii.278, Ja.iii.341.

2. to recognise, realise, know: only in combination with jānāti (pres. jānāti passati; ppr. jānaṃ passaṃ): see jānāti 11.

3. to find Snp.1118 (= vindati paṭilabhati Cnd.428#b); Ja.iii.55; Pv.ii.9#9
   ■ Cp. vi˚.

Vedic paśyati & *spaśati (aor. aspaṣṭa, Caus. spāśayati etc.); cp. Av. spasyeiti, Gr. σκέπτομαι, (E “scepsis”); Lat. species etc.; Ohg. spehon = Ger spāhen (E. spy)
■ The paradigm pass˚, which in literary Sk. is restricted to the pres. stem (paś) interchanges with the paradigm dakkh˚ & dass˚; (dṛś): see dassati¹