सं-√ स्था aĀ. -तिष्ठते (
[Pāṇ. 1-3, 22] ;
ep. and
mc. also
P. -तिष्ठति;
Ved. inf. -स्थातोस्,
[ĀpŚr.] ),
to stand together, hold together (
pf. p. du. -तस्थाने॑, said of heaven and earth),
[RV.] ;
to come or stay near (
loc. ),
ib.;
[VS.] ;
[ŚBr.] ;
to meet (as enemies), come into conflict,
[RV.] ;
to stand still, remain, stay, abide (
lit. and
fig. ; with
वाक्ये, ‘to obey’),
[MBh.] ;
[R.] &c.;
to be accomplished or completed (
esp. applied to rites),
[Br.] ;
[ŚrS.] ;
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] ;
[BhP.] ;
to prosper, succeed, get on well,
[MBh.] ;
to come to an end, perish, be lost, die,
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] ;
[BhP.] ;
to become, be turned into or assume the form of (
acc. ),
[Lalit.] :
Caus. -स्थापयति (
Subj. aor. तिष्टिपः,
[ŚBr.] ),
to cause to stand up or firm, raise on their legs again (fallen horses),
[MBh.] ;
to raise up, restore (dethroned kings),
ib.;
to confirm, encourage, comfort (
आत्मानम्, or
हृदयम्, ‘one's self’
i.e. ‘take heart again’),
[Kāv.] ;
[Pañcat.] ;
to fix or place upon or in (
loc. ),
[Kauś.] ;
[MBh.] &c.;
to put or add to (
उपरी),
[Yājñ.] ;
to build (a town),
[Hariv.] ;
to heap, store up (goods),
[VarBṛS.] ;
to found, establish, fix, settle, introduce, set a foot,
[MBh.] ;
[R.] ;
[Rājat.] ;
to cause to stand still, stop, restrain, suppress (breath, semen &c.),
[AitBr.] ;
to accomplish, conclude, complete (
esp. a rite),
[Br.] ;
[Kauś.] ;
[MBh.] ;
to put to death, kill,
[ŚBr.] ;
[MBh.] ;
to perform the last office for
i.e. to burn, cremate (a dead body),
[ŚāṅkhBr.] ;
to put to subjection, subject,
[MW.] :
Desid. of
Caus. -स्थापयिषति, to wish to finish or conclude,
[ŚāṅkhBr.] सं-स्था f. bf. See next.
सं-स्था f. cf. (
ifc. f(आ). ) staying or abiding with (
comp. ),
[MBh.] shape, form, manifestation, appearance (
ifc. ‘appearing as’),
[Up.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
कृ established order, standard, rule, direction (
acc. with √ or
Caus. of √
स्था, ‘to establish or fix a rule or obligation for one's self’; with
व्यति-√ क्रम् or
परि√ भिद्, ‘to transgress or break an established rule or obligation’),
[MBh.] ;
[R.] &c.
quality, property, nature,
[Kāv.] ;
[Pur.] conclusion, termination, completion,
[TS.] ;
[ŚBr.] &c.
end, death,
[Pur.] प्रलय destruction of the world (= , said to be of four kinds,
viz. नैमित्तिक,
प्राकृतिक,
नित्य,
आत्यन्तिक),
ib.a complete liturgical course, the basis or essential form of a sacrifice (the
ज्योतिः-ष्टोम,
हविर्-यज्ञ, and
पाक-यज्ञ consist of seven such forms),
[ŚrS.] पशु-स्° killing (, ‘killing of the sacrificial animal’),
[BhP.] प्रेत-स्° cremation (of a body; also ),
ib.श्राद्ध (
prob. ) = ,
[MārkP.] चर m. a spy or secret emissary in a king's own country (=
m.prob. a group of five spies consisting of a
वणिज् ‘, merchant’,
भिक्षु, ‘mendicant’,
छात्त्र, ‘pupil’,
लिन्गिन्, ‘one who falsely wears the mark of a twice-born’, and
कृषीवल, ‘husbandman’
cf. पञ्च-वर्ग, and,
[Mn. vii, 154] ;
[Kull.] ),
[Kām.] continuation in the right way,
[L.] occupation, business, profession,
[W.] an assembly,
ib.a royal ordinance,
ib.