विष्टर

{ viṣṭarḥ }

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

 पु. मधुपर्कसमयीं अतिथि वगैरेस आसनासाठीं द्यावयाची दर्भाची विशिष्ट आकाराची मुष्टि ; दर्भासन . सिध्द जाहला मधुपर्क देखा । विष्टर दिधला जगन्नायका । - एरुस्व २४ . १३७ .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

वि-ष्टर  m.  m. (√ स्तृ) anything spread out, a handful of rushes or grass for sitting on ( esp. the seat of the presiding Brāhman at a sacrifice), [GṛŚrS.]; [MBh.]

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a seat made of 25 shoots of कुश grass tied up in a sheaf, [W.]
a tree, [L.]
N. of a divine being reckoned among the विश्वे देवाः, [Hariv.]
वि-ष्टर  mn.  mn. any seat or couch, chair, stool &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

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वि-ष्टर  mfn.  mfn. = वि-स्तर, extensive, wide (?) See comp.

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The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

विष्टरः [viṣṭarḥ]   1 A seat (a stool, chair &c.); कुशपूतं प्रवयास्तु विष्टरम् (आददे) [R.8.18;] वृक्षशाखां स्वयं छित्वा विष्टराय ददौ मुदा [A. Rām.4.1.32.]
A layer, bed (as of Kuśa grass.).
A handful of Kuśa grass.
The seat. of the presiding priest (or Brahman) at a sacrifice.
A tree.
An ascetic seat made of 25 Kuśa grassshoots ('पञ्चाशद्भिर्भवेद् ब्रह्मा तदर्धेन तु विष्टरः'); विष्टरासनयोग्यो हि कालोऽयं मामुपस्थितः [Rām.2.2.28.] -Comp.
-भाज् a.  a. seated on or occupying a seat; तत्रेश्वरो विष्टरभाग् यथावत् [Ku.7.72.]
-श्रवस्  m. m. an epithet of Viṣṇu or Kṛiṣṇa; तं वदन्तमिति विष्टरश्रवाः श्रावयन्नथ समस्तभूभृतः [Śi.14.12;] [Mb.14.14.2.]

Shabda-Sagara

विष्टर  m.  ( -रः)
1. A tree.
2. A handful of Kuśa or sacred grass.
3. A seat, a stool, a chair, a couch, &c.
4. The seat of the Brāhman, either real or in effigy, as presiding at a sacrifice.
5. A bed.
6. A seat made of twenty-five straws of Kuśa grass tied up in a sheaf.
E. वि before स्तृ to spread, aff. अप् and स changed to ष .

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वि स्तृ अप् स ष .