jure, to destroy, (comp. Nīlak. s. v. man with abhi); e. g.
Śatapath.: atha haika ulmukyena dahanti . tadu tathā na kuryādeṣa
vai rudriyo'gniḥ sa hainamīśvaraḥ saputraṃ sapaśumabhimantoḥ ‘for it
is capable to injure (or to destroy) him with his sons and
cattle’; (for the construction of īśvara comp. Pāṇ. III. 4. 13.).
E. man with abhi, kṛt aff. tosun (i. e. the genitive of
an obsolete base abhimantu, in the sense of the infinitive,
which in the classical dialect would be abhimantum; but with
the udātta on the second syllable, which accent the word
would not have, if it were the sixth case of a regular word
abhimantu; comp. Pāṇ. VI. 2. 50.).