धारयति

Etymology

Causative of धरति (dharati, “to hold, support, seize”), itself from √धृ (dhṛ, “to hold back, stop, restrain”)

Verb

धारयति • (dhārayati)

1. to maintain, to hold
   • c. 400 BCE, Bhagavad Gītā 6.13

     समं कायशिरोग्रीवं धारयन्नचलं स्थिरः

     samaṃ kāyaśirogrīvaṃ dhārayannacalaṃ sthiraḥ

     Maintaining (dhārayann) body, head and neck alevel, moveless, fixed

2. to practise
3. to undergo, to bear

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 519