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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ȷ́ʰagẓʰ-, reduplication of the root *ȷ́ʰas- (“to laugh”); whence also हसति (hasati). Also compare Pali jagghati (“he laughs, ridicules”). See the root हस् (has) for more.
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Participle
जक्षत् • (jákṣat)
- present participle of जक्ष् (jakṣ); laughing
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 1.33.7:
- त्वमेतान्रुदतो जक्षतश्चायोधयो रजस इन्द्र पारे ।
- tvametānrudato jakṣataścāyodhayo rajasa indra pāre.
- Whether they are weeping or laughing, thou hast o’erthrown them, O Indra, on the sky's extremest limit.