vástu f. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) becoming light, dawning, morning, [RV.]; [VS.] (gen. vástoḥ, in the morning; vástor vastoḥ, every morning; vástor asyā́ḥ, this morning; práti vástoḥ, towards morning; dat. vástave See under √ 2. vas).
n. (for 1. See p. 931, col. 3) the seat or place of (see kapila-, vraṇa-v°)
any really existing or abiding substance or essence, thing, object, article, [Kāv.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.] &c. (also applied to living beings, e.g. [Śak. ii, 7/8])
(in phil.) the real (opp. to a-v°, ‘that which does not really exist, the unreal’; a-dvitīya-v°, ‘the one real substance or essence which has no second’), [IW. 53 n. 1]; [103] &c.
the right thing, a valuable or worthy object, object of or for (comp.), [Kāv.]
goods, wealth, property (cf. -vinimaya and -hāni)
the thing in question, matter, affair, circumstance, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
subject, subject-matter, contents, theme (of a speech &c.), plot (of a drama or poem), [Kāv.]; [Daśar.]; [Sāh.] &c.
(in music) a kind of composition, [Saṃgīt.]
natural disposition, essential property, [W.]
the pith or substance of anything, [W.]
1. 2. See pp. 931 and 932.