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pratiṣṭhāna

prati-°ṣṭhā́na n. a firm standing-place, ground, foundation, [PārGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.

a pedestal, foot, [TBr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]

the foundation (others ‘consecration’) of a city, [SkandaP.]

N. of a town at the confluence of the Gaṅgā and Yamunā (on the left bank of the G° opposite to Allāhābad, the capital of the early kings of the lunar dynasty), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Kathās.] &c. ([IW. 511 n. 1])

prati-°ṣṭhā́na m. N. of a locality on the Go-dāvarī, [Kathās.]

(du.) of the constellation Proṣṭha-pada, [L.]