saṃ-√ sthā Ā. -tiṣṭhate ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 22]; ep. and mc. also P. -tiṣṭhati; Ved. inf. -sthātos, [ĀpŚr.]), to stand together, hold together (pf. p. du. -tasthāné, 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 vākye, ‘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. -sthāpayati (Subj. aor. tiṣṭipaḥ, [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 (ātmānam, or hṛdayam, ‘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 (uparī), [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. -sthāpayiṣati, to wish to finish or conclude, [ŚāṅkhBr.]
saṃ-sthā (ā́), f., see next.
saṃ-sthā́ f. (ifc. f(A). ) staying or abiding with (comp.), [MBh.]
established order, standard, rule, direction (acc. with √ kṛ or Caus. of √ sthā, ‘to establish or fix a rule or obligation for one's self’; with vyati-√ kram or pari√ bhid, ‘to transgress or break an established rule or obligation’), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
destruction of the world (= pralaya, said to be of four kinds, viz. naimittika, prākṛtika, nitya, ātyantika), [ib.]
a complete liturgical course, the basis or essential form of a sacrifice (the Jyotiḥ-ṣṭoma, Havir-yajña, and Pāka-yajña consist of seven such forms), [ŚrS.]
killing (paśu-s°, ‘killing of the sacrificial animal’), [BhP.]
cremation (of a body; also preta-s°), [ib.]
(prob.) = śrāddha, [MārkP.]
a spy or secret emissary in a king's own country (= cara, m. prob. a group of five spies consisting of a vaṇij ‘, merchant’, bhikṣu, ‘mendicant’, chāttra, ‘pupil’, liṅgin, ‘one who falsely wears the mark of a twice-born’, and kṛṣīvala, ‘husbandman’, cf. pañca-varga, and [Mn. vii, 154]; [Kull.]), [Kām.];
saṃ-°sthāpya mfn. to be put or placed in (loc.; with vaśe and gen., ‘to be placed in subjection to’; with cetasi and gen., ‘to be called to or impressed on the mind of’), [Mn.]; [Rājat.]
to be completed or finished (as a sacrifice), [TS.]