1. īkṣ
īkṣ cl. 1. Ā. īkṣate, īkṣāṃcakre ( Pāṇ. i, 3, 63 ), īkṣiṣyate, aikṣiṣṭa, īkṣitum, to see, look, view, behold, look at, gaze at; to watch over (with acc. or rarely loc. ), AV. ; AitBr. ; ŚBr. ; Mn. ; Kathās. &c.; to see in one's mind, think, have a thought, ŚBr. ; ChUp. ; MBh. ; Bhag. &c.; to regard, consider, Kum. ; to observe (the stars &c.), VarBṛS. ; to foretell for ( dat. ; lit. to observe the stars for any one), Pāṇ. i, 4, 39 : Caus. īkṣayati, to make one look at (with acc. ), ĀśvGṛ. (This root is perhaps connected with akṣi, q.v. )