saṃyam | संयम् | saMyam
saṃ-√ yam | सं-√ यम् | P. -yacCati | -यच्Cअति |√ (rarely Ā.), to hold together, hold in, hold fast, restrain, curb, suppress, control, govern, guide (horses, the senses, passions), RV. &c. &c.; to tie up, bind together (hair or a garment), MBh.; Kāv. &c.; to put together, heap up (Ā. ‘for one's self’), Pāṇ. i, 3, 75, Sch.; to shut up, close (a door), Bhag.; to press close to or against, Suśr.; to present with, give to (Ā. with instr. of person, when the action is permitted P. with dat., when the action is not permitted), Pāṇ. i, 3, 55 : Caus. -yamayati | -यमयति | (cf. -yamita | -यमित |), to cause to restrain &c.; to bind up (the hair), Veṇīs.