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sthira

sthirá mf(A/)n. firm, hard, solid, compact, strong, [RV.] &c. &c.

fixed, immovable, motionless, still, calm, [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.

firm, not wavering or tottering, steady, [R.]; [VarBṛS.]

unfluctuating, durable, lasting, permanent, changeless, [RV.] &c. &c.

stern, relentless, hard-hearted, [Kum.]

constant, steadfast, resolute, persevering (manas or hṛdayaṃ sthiraṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to steel one's heart, take courage’, [R.]; [Kathās.])

kept secret, [Vet.]

faithful, trustworthy, [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.

firmly resolved to (inf.), [MBh.]

settled, ascertained, undoubted, sure, certain, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

sthirá m. a partic. spell recited over weapons, [R.]

a kind of metre, [VarBṛS.]

N. of Śiva, [MBh.]

of one of Skanda's attendants, [ib.]

N. of a partic. astrol. Yoga, [MW.]

of certain zodiacal signs (viz. Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius; so called because any work done under these signs is supposed to be lasting), [ib.] ([L.] also ‘a tree; Grislea Tomentosa; a mountain; a bull; a god; the planet Saturn; final emancipation’)

(am), n. steadfastness, stubbornness, resistance (acc. with ava-√ tan P. ‘to loosen the resistance of [gen.]’; Ā. ‘to relax one's own resistance, yield’; with ā-√ tan Ā. ‘to offer resistance’), [RV.]

&c. See p. 1264, col. 3.