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stambha

m. (ifc. f(A). ) a post, pillar, column, stem (as of a tree; also improperly applied to an arm), [Kāṭh.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.

support, propping, strengthening, [Bhartṛ.]

inflation, pretentiousness, arrogance, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

fixedness, stiffness, rigidity, torpor, paralysis, stupefaction, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

becoming hard or solid, [Rājat.]

stoppage, obstruction, suppression (also the magical arresting of any feeling or force, as of hunger, thirst, or of the forces of water, fire &c. as taught in the Tantras), [Kāv.]; [Suśr.]; [Pañcar.]

filling up, stuffing, [R.]

N. of a partic. Adhyāya, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. v, 2, 60], Vārtt. 1

of a Ṛṣi &c., [VP.] (cf. g. kuñjādi and śaunakādi).