āhan | आहन् | Ahan
ā-√ han | आ-√ हन् | P. -hanti | -हन्ति | (Impv. ā/-jahi | आ/-जहि |, AV. &c.; pf. ā/-jaṅāna | आ/-जङान |, RV. &c.) Ā. -hate | -हते | (only if no object follows, Pāṇ. i, 3, 28, or if the object is a part of one's own body, Kāty.; Pot. 1. sg. -ṅnīya | -ङ्नीय |, Pat. on Pāṇ. i, 1, 62; Daś.) to strike at, hit, beat; to attack, assault, RV.; TS.; ĀśvGṛ.; MBh.; Kathās. &c.: (Ā.) to strike one's self (or any part of one's body), BhP.; Pāṇ. and Comm. Bhaṭṭ.; to make away with one's self, Daś. 91, 15; to fasten, AV.; ŚBr.; to beat or cause to sound (a drum &c.), TS.; ŚBr.; Kathās.; Bhaṭṭ. &c.: Intens. ā/-jaṇṅanti | आ/-जण्ङन्ति |, RV. vi, 75, 13, to strike at or beat violently.