mfn. (fr. Caus.) causing to stand &c.
maintaining, preserving (see vayaḥ-sth°)
fixing, determining, [Sāh.]
(am), n. causing to stand, fixing, establishing, founding, instituting, raising, erecting (an image &c.), [VarBṛS.]; [Inscr.]
putting or placing or laying upon (comp.), [Suśr.]; [Naiṣ.], Sch.
fastening, fixing, rendering immovable, [BhP.]
hanging, suspending, [Cat.]
strengthening (of the limbs), preservation or prolongation (of life) or a means of strengthening &c., [Suśr.]; [Car.]
a means of stopping (the flow of blood), styptic, [ib.]
storage (of grain), [Kṛṣis.]
establishment or dialectical proof of a proposition, [Madhus.]
statement, definition, [Sāh.]
a partic. process to which quicksilver is subjected, [Sarvad.]
= puṃ-savana, [L.]
fixing the thoughts, abstraction, [W.]
a dwelling, habitation, [ib.]