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saṃsthāसंस्थाsaṃ-√ 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.]
shape, form, manifestation, appearance (ifc. ‘appearing as’), [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.
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.
quality, property, nature, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]
conclusion, termination, completion, [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.
end, death, [Pur.]
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.];
continuation in the right way, [L.]
occupation, business, profession, [W.]
an assembly, [ib.]
a royal ordinance, [ib.]
saṃsthānaसंस्थानsaṃ-sthā́na mfn. standing together, [MW.]
like, resembling, [W.]
applied to Viṣṇu, [MBh.]
saṃ-sthā́na m. (pl.) N. of a people, [ib.]
saṃ-sthā́na n. (ifc. f(A). ) staying or abiding in (comp.), [Hit.] (cf. dūra-s°)
saṃ-sthā́na n. standing still or firm (in a battle), [Gaut.]
being, existence, life, [MBh.]; [Śaṃk.]; [BhP.]
abiding by, strict adherence or obedience to (comp.), [Kām.]
abode, dwelling-place, habitation, [Nir.]; [KauṣUp.]; [MBh.] &c.
a public place (in a town), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
shape, form, appearance (often with rūpa), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
beauty, splendour, [MBh.]
the symptom of a disease, [Suśr.]
nature, state, condition, [BhP.]
an aggregate, whole, totality, [BhP.]
termination, conclusion, [MaitrS.]
end, death, [L.]
formation, [L.]
vicinity, neighbourhood, [L.]
saṃsthāpyaसंस्थाप्यsaṃ-°sthāpya ind. having placed together &c.
excepting, [Divyāv.]
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.]
to be treated with a calming clyster, [Car.]
saṃsthāsnuसंस्थास्नुsaṃ-sthāsnu See sa-sthāsnu-cārin.
saṃsthātvaसंस्थात्वsaṃ-sthā—tva n. the being a form or shape, [BhP.]
saṃsthāgāraसंस्थागारsaṃ-°sthāgāra m. n. a meeting-house, [Lalit.]
saṃsthājapaसंस्थाजपsaṃ-sthā—japa m. a closing prayer, [ĀśvŚr.]
saṃsthākṛtaसंस्थाकृतsaṃ-sthā—kṛta mfn. settled, determined, [Hariv.]
saṃsthānakaसंस्थानकsaṃ-°sthānaka m. N. of Śakāra (the king's brother-in-law) in the Mṛcchakaṭikā.
saṃsthāpakaसंस्थापकsaṃ-sthāpaka mfn. (fr. Caus.) fixing firmly, settling, establishing, [Pañcar.]
forming into a shape or various shapes (khaṇḍa-s°, ‘one who makes various figures out of sugar’), [R.]
saṃsthāpanāसंस्थापनाsaṃ-°sthāpanā (ā), f. comforting, encouraging, [Mṛcch.]
saṃsthāpanaसंस्थापनsaṃ-°sthāpana n. fixing, setting up, raising, erecting, [MBh.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Suśr.]
establishment, regulation (cf. argha-s°), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
saṃsthāpitaसंस्थापितsaṃ-°sthāpita mfn. placed, fixed, deposited, [W.]
stopped, restrained, controlled, [ib.]
made to stand together, heaped up, accumulated, [MW.]
saṃsthānavatसंस्थानवत्saṃ-sthāna—vat mfn. being, existing, [R.]
having various forms, [Kām.]
saṃsthāpanīyaसंस्थापनीयsaṃ-°sthāpanīya mfn. to be established or settled, [MW.]
saṃsthānabhuktiसंस्थानभुक्तिsaṃ-sthāna—bhukti f. (with kālasya) the passage through various periods of time, [BhP.]
saṃsthānacārinसंस्थानचारिन्saṃ-sthāna—cārin m. w.r. for sa-sthāsnu-c°
saṃsthāpaddhatiसंस्थापद्धतिsaṃ-sthā—paddhati f. N. of wk.
saṃsthāpayitavyaसंस्थापयितव्यsaṃ-°sthāpayitavya mfn. to be cheered up or comforted, [Kād.]
saṃsthāvayavavatसंस्थावयववत्saṃ-s°thāvayava-vat mfn. having a shape and limbs, [BhP.]