upayam | उपयम् | upayam
upa-√ yam | उप-√ यम् | P. Ā. -yacCati | -यच्Cअति |, -te | -ते |, to seize, lay hold of, touch (P. if not in the sense of appropriating, Pat. on Pāṇ. i, 3, 56), RV. viii, 35, 21; AV. xii, 3, 19; ŚBr. &c.; to reach forth, offer (Pass. aor. -ayāmi | -अयामि |), RV. vii, 92, 1; to put under, prop, stay, ŚBr.; KātyŚr.; Kauś.; to take for one's self, receive, appropriate; to take as one's wife, marry (only Ā. Pāṇ. i, 3, 56; but See Gobh. ii, 1, 8; Gaut. xxviii, 20; Kathās. xiv, 67), ĀśvGṛ.; Mn. iii, 11; MBh.; Śak. &c.; to sleep with (a woman), Mn. xi, 172.