cakś | चक्श् | cakz

acakś | चक्श् | (a reduplicated form of √ kāṣ | काष् | = kṣā | क्षा |; in the non-conjugational tenses √ Kyā | Kया | is substituted, Pāṇ. ii, 4, 54 f.; some pf. forms, however, are found) cl. 2. Ā. ca/śwe | च/श्wए | (2. du. cakśāṭe | चक्शाटे |, RV.; pf. p. ca/kśāṛa | च/क्शाऋअ |, RV.; BhP. i, 18, 25 [a- | अ- | neg.]; rarely P. impf. 2. sg. acakśas | अचक्शस् |, MBh. viii, 3384, 1. pl. acakśma | अचक्श्म |, Naigh. iii, 11; Ved. inf. ca/kśase | च/क्शसे |, RV.; AV. vi, 68, 2), to appear, become visible, RV. viii, 19, 16; x, 74, 2 and 92, 6 ; to see, look at, observe, notice, RV.; BhP.; to tell, inform, MBh. viii, 3384; to take any one (acc.) for (acc.), BhP. x, 73, 11.