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niṣad

ni-ṣad (√ sad) P. -ṣīdati, Ved. also -ṣadati (impf. ny-aṣīdat, or ny-asīdat; Ved. also -asadat; pf. P. -ṣasāda, -ṣedur Ā. -ṣedire, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. P. -ṣatsi, -ṣatsat; Pass. ny-asādi, [RV.]; ind.p. -ṣadya, [ib.]; Ved. inf. -ṣáde, [ib.]; for s and ṣ cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 66] &c.), to sit or lie down or rest upon (loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to sink or go down (as a ship), [Hariv.]; to be afflicted, suffer pain, [MW.]; to perform or celebrate by sitting (sattram), [Br.]; (P. Ā.) to set, found, establish, appoint, [RV.] : Caus. -ṣādayati, °te to cause to sit down, set down, appoint, [RV.]

ni-°ṣád mfn. sitting inactive, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

sitting (esp. near the altar at a sacrificial rite), [RV.]; [ŚBr.]

N. of a kind of literary composition, [MBh. xii, 1613.]