sahasradhā : sahasra—dhā́ ind. thousand-fold, in a thousand ways or parts, [RV.]; &c.

pañcadaśa : pañca—daśa mf(I)n. the 15th, [AV.] &c. &c.

pañcadaśa : + 15 [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

pañcadaśa : consisting of 15 [RV.] &c. &c.

pañcadaśa : containing or representing the Pañca-daśa Stoma, connected with it, [Br.]

pañcadaśa : pañca—daśa for °śan in comp.

ukthā : f. a kind of metre (four times one long or two short syllables)

uktha : ukthá am, n. a saying, sentence, verse, eulogy, praise, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]

uktha : (in the ritual) a kind of recitation or certain recited verses forming a subdivision of the Śastras (they generally form a series, and are recited in contradistinction to the Sāman verses which are sung and to the Yajus or muttered sacrificial formulas), [AitBr.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c.

uktha : (the mahad-uktham or bṛhad-uktham, ‘great Uktha’, forms a series of verses, in three sections, each containing eighty Tṛcas or triple verses, recited at the end of the Agnicayana)

uktha : N. of the Sāma-veda, [ŚBr.]

uktha : ukthá m. a form of Agni, [MBh.]

uktha : N. of a prince, [VP.]

uktha : N. of a divine being belonging to the Viśve Devās, [Hariv. 11542.]

yāvat : yā́vat mf(atI)n. (fr. 3. ya; correlative of tāvat, q.v.) as great, as large, as much, as many, as often, as frequent, as far, as long, as old &c. (or how great &c. = quantus, quot or qualis), [RV.] &c. &c. (yā́vantaḥ kíyantaḥ, ‘as many as’, [TBr.]; yā́vad vā yāvad vā, ‘as much as possible’, [ŚBr.]; yāvat tāvat, ‘so much as’, in alg. applied to the first unknown quantity [= x] or so much of the unknown as its co-efficient number; in this sense also expressed by the first syllable yā cf. [IW. 182]; iti yāvat in Comms. ‘just so much’, ‘only so’, ‘that is to say’, ‘such is the explanation’)

yāvat : yā́vat ind. as greatly as, as far as, as much or as many as

yāvat : as often as, whenever

yāvat : as long as, whilst

yāvat : as soon as, the moment that, until that, till, until, [RV.] &c. &c. (in these senses used with either pres. Pot. fut. impf., or aor., or with the simple copula). with the 1st sg. of pres., rarely of Pot., may denote an intended action and may be translated by ‘meanwhile’, ‘just’

yāvat : yā́vad yāvad-tā́vat tāvat, ‘as gradually as-so’, [ŚBr.]

yāvat : yāvan na, ‘while not’, ‘before’, ‘till’

yāvat : ‘if not’, ‘whether not’

yāvat : na yāvattāvat, ‘scarcely-when’, ‘no sooner-than’

yāvat : na param or na kevalam-yāvat, ‘not only-but even’. Sometimes is also used as a preposition with a prec. or following acc., or with a following abl., rarely dat., e.g. māsam ekaṃ yāvat, ‘during one month’

yāvat : sūryodayaṃ yāvat, ‘until sunrise’

yāvat : sarpa-vivaraṃ yāvat, ‘up to the serpent's hole’

yāvat : yāvad or yāvad-ā samāpanāt, ‘until the completion’

yāvat : yāvad garbhasya paripākāya, ‘until the maturity of the fetus’. Sometimes also with a nom. followed by iti, e.g. anta iti yāvat, ‘as far as the end’

yāvat : pañca yāvad iti, ‘up to five’

yāvat : yā́vat ind. or with another ind. word, e.g. adya yāvat, ‘up to this day’. yāvatā ind. as far as, as long as, [Āpast.]; [R.]; [BhP.]

yāvat : yā́vat ind. till, until (with Pot.), [Lāṭy.] (with na, as long as not, before, [BhP.])

yāvat : as soon as, the moment that, [Cat.]

yāvat : in as much as, [Pat.]

yāvat : yā́vat ind. yāvati-tāvati, [Daś.]

dyāvāpṛthivī : dyā́vā—pṛthivī (dyā́°), f. du. id., [RV.]; [AV.] &c. (°vyaú, [Suparṇ.])

tāvat : tā́vat mf(atI)n. (fr. 2. ta, [Pāṇ. v, 2, 39]; [vi, 3, 91]) so great, so large, so much, so far, so long, so many (correlative of yā́vat; rarely of ya or yathokta, [Nal.] &c.), [RV.] &c. (yāvatā kṣaṇena tāvatā, ‘after so long time, in that time’, as soon as, [Rājat. v, 110])

tāvat : just a little, [Kir. ii, 48]

tāvat : (in alg.) an unknown quantity (also with yāvat)

tāvat : tā́vat ind. (correlative of yā́vat) so much, so greatly, to such an extent, in such a number, so far, [RV.]; [AV.] &c. (tā́vat-tāvat, [ŚBr. i, 8, 1, 6])

tāvat : so long, in that time, [RV. x, 88, 19]; [ŚBr. i]; [Mn.] &c.

tāvat : meanwhile, in the mean time (the correlative yāvat being often connected with a neg., e.g. tāvac chobhate mūrkho yāvat kiṃ-cin na bhāṣate, ‘so long a fool shines as long as he says nothing’, [Hit.]; śocayiṣyāmy ātmānaṃ tāvad yāvan me prāptam brāhmaṇyam, ‘so long I will emaciate myself, as long as [i.e. until] I have obtained the state of a Brāhman’, [R. i, 64, 19]), [ŚBr. xiv, 4, 2, 30]; [ChUp. vi, 14, 2]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (also correlative of purā [[R. i, 28, 21]], of yāvatā na, of yāvat preceded by purā [[MBh. xiii, 4556]], or without any correlative [[2727]; [Kathās.]; [Hit.]])

tāvat : at once, now, just, first (followed by anantaram [[Hit.]], aparam [[Pañcat.]], api [ib.], idānīm [[Hit.]], uta [[Śak.]], ca [[Daś.]; [Prab.]], tatas [[Mn. iv, 174]; [Ragh. vii, 4 f.]], tad-anu [[Megh.]], tu [[Daś. vii]; [Vedāntas.]], paścāt [[R. ii]], punar [[Pañcat.]], vā; very often connected with an Impv., rarely [[MBh. iv, 888]; [R. ii, 56, 13]] with a Pot., often with the 1st person of pr. or fut. [MBh.] &c.; the Impv. is sometimes to be supplied [itas tāvat, ‘just come hither’; mā tāvat, ‘by no means, God forbid!’] [Śak.]; [Mālav.]; [Vikr.]; [Prab.]; sometimes arhasi with the inf. is used instead, [R. i f.])

tāvat : (with na or a-) not yet, [MBh.] &c. (followed by yāvat, ‘while’, [Kathās. xxvi, 23]; tāvan na-api na, ‘not only not-but also not’, [Kād.])

tāvat : very well, all right, [Hcar.]

tāvat : indeed, truly (e.g. dṛḍhas tāvad bandhaḥ, ‘the knot is tight I must admit’, [Hit.]; gatā tāvat, ‘she is indeed gone’, [Kathās. xviii, 241]), [R.] &c.

tāvat : already (opposed to ‘how much more’ or ‘how much less’), [R. iv f.]; [Śak.]

tāvat : really (= eva, sometimes connected with this particle, e.g. vikrayas tāvad eva saḥ, ‘it is really a sale’), [Mn. iii, 53]; [Hariv. 7110]; [R.] &c.

tāvat : [cf. Lat. tantus.]

it : ifc. going, going towards

it : cf. arthét

it : (for 2. See s.v.)

it : (in Gr.) an indicatory letter or syllable attached to roots &c. (= anubandha, q.v.)

it : for the Ved. particle id, q.v.

id : íd ind. Ved. (probably the neut. form of the pronom. base i See 3. i; a particle of affirmation) even, just, only

id : indeed, assuredly (especially, in strengthening an antithesis, e.g. yáthā váśanti devā́s táthéd asat, as the gods wish it, thus indeed it will be, [RV. viii, 28, 4]; dípsanta íd ripávo nā́ha debhuḥ, the enemies wishing indeed to hurt were in nowise able to hurt, [RV. i, 147, 3]). is often added to words expressing excess or exclusion (e.g. viśva it, every one indeed; śaśvad it, constantly indeed; eka it, one only). At the beginning of sentences it often adds emphasis to pronouns, prepositions, particles (e.g. tvam it, thou indeed; yadi it, if indeed, &c.) occurs often in the Ṛg-veda and Atharva-veda, seldom in the Brāhmaṇas, and its place is taken in classical Sanskṛt by eva and other particles.

tat : for tád. See col. 3.

tat : , 1. tatá. See √ tan

tat : in comp. for tád.

tat : mfn. ifc. See parī-

tat : cf. purī-tát.

sa : the last of the three sibilants (it belongs to the dental class and in sound corresponds to s in sin).

sa : (in prosody) an anapest (˘ ˘ ¯)

sa : (in music) an abbreviated term for ṣaḍ-ja (see p. 1109, col. 2).

sa : m. (only [L.]) a snake

sa : air, wind

sa : a bird

sa : N. of Viṣṇu or Śiva

sa : n. knowledge

sa : meditation

sa : a carriage road

sa : a fence.

sa : mfn. (fr. √ san) procuring, bestowing (only ifc.; cf. palu-ṣá and priya-sá).

sa : sá the actual base for the nom. case of the 3rd pers. pron. tád, q.v. (occurring only in the nom. sg. mf. [sá or sás, sā], and in the Ved. loc. [sásmin, [RV. i, 152, 6]; [i, 174, 4]; [x, 95, 11]]; the final s of the nom. m. is dropped before all consonants [except before p in [RV. v, 2, 4], and before t in [RV. viii, 33, 16]] and appears only at the end of a sentence in the form of Visarga; occasionally blends with another vowel [as in saīṣaḥ]; and it is often for emphasis connected with another pron. as with aham, tvam, eṣa, ayam &c. [e.g. so 'ham, sa tvam, ‘I (or thou) that very person’; cf. under tád, p. 434], the verb then following in the 1st and 2nd pers. even if aham or tvam be omitted [e.g. sa tvā pṛcchāmi ‘I that very person ask you’, [BṛĀrUp.]; sa vai no brūhi ‘do thou tell us’, [ŚBr.]]; similarly, to denote emphasis, with bhavān [e.g. sa bhavān vijayāya pratiṣṭhatām, ‘let your Highness set out for victory’, [Śak.]]; it sometimes [and frequently in the Brāhmaṇas] stands as the first word of a sentence preceding a rel. pronoun or adv. such as ya, yad, yadi, yathā, ced; in this position may be used pleonastically or as a kind of ind., even where another gender or number is required [e.g. sa yadi sthāvarā āpo bhananti, ‘if those waters are stagnant’, [ŚBr.]]; in the Sāṃkhya , like eṣa, ka, and ya, is used to denote Puruṣa, ‘the Universal Soul’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sa : [cf. Zd. hō, hā; Gk. ὁ, ἡ.]

sa : ind. (connected with saha, sam, sama, and occasionally in [BhP.] standing for saha with instr.) an inseparable prefix expressing ‘junction’, ‘conjunction’, ‘possession’ (as opp. to a priv.), ‘similarity’, ‘equality’

sa : (and when compounded with nouns to form adjectives and adverbs it may be translated by ‘with’, ‘together or along with’, ‘accompanied by’, ‘added to’, ‘having’, ‘possessing’, ‘containing’, ‘having the same’ [cf. sa-kopa, sāgni, sa-bhāya, sa-droṇa, sa-dharman, sa-varṇa]; or it may = ‘ly’, as in sa-kopam, ‘angrily’, sopadhi, ‘fraudulently’), [RV.]; &c.

sa : [cf. Gk. ἁ in ἁπλοῦς; Lat. sim in simplex; sem in semel, semper Eng. same.]

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

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sa : See 5. , p. 1111, col. 2.

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sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following)

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

sahasradhā : sahasra—dhā́ ind. thousand-fold, in a thousand ways or parts, [RV.]; &c.

mahiman : mahimán m. greatness, might, power, majesty, glory, [RV.] &c. &c. (°himnā́ ind. or °hinā́ ind. mightily, forcibly, [RV.])

mahiman : the magical power of increasing size at will, [Vet.]; [Pañcar.] (cf. [MWB. 245])

mahiman : magnitude (as one of Śiva's attributes; °mnaḥ stava m. stuti f. stotra n. N. of hymns; cf. mahimastava)

mahiman : N. of a man, [Rājat.]

mahiman : a N. of Mammaṭa q.v., [Cat.]

mahiman : du. N. of two Grahas at the Aśva-medha sacrifice, [ŚBr.]; [ŚrS.]

mahiman : &c. See col. 1.

sahasram : (am), ind., e.g. sahasram ṛṣibhiḥ, ‘with a thousand Ṛṣis’, [RV.]

sahasra : sa—hasra See below.

sahasra : sahásra n. (rarely) m. (perhaps fr. 7. sa + hasra = Gk. χίλιοι for χεσλοι; cf. Pers. hazār) a thousand (with the counted object in the same case sg. or pl., e.g. sahasreṇa bāhunā, ‘with a thousand arms’, [Hariv.]; sahasraṃ bhiṣajaḥ, ‘a thousand drugs’, [RV.]; or in the gen., e.g. dve sahasre suvarṇasya, ‘two thousand pieces of gold’, [Rājat.]; catvāri sahasrāṇi varṣāṇām, ‘four thousand years’, [Mn.]; sometimes in comp., either ibc., e.g. yuga-sahasram, ‘a thousand ages’, [Mn.], or ifc., e.g. sahasrāśvena, ‘with a thousand horses’; sahasram may also be used as an ind., e.g. sahasram ṛṣibhiḥ, ‘with a thousand Ṛṣis’, [RV.]; with other numerals it is used thus, ekādhikaṃ sahasram, or eka-sahasram, ‘a thousand one’, 1001; dvyadhikaṃ s°, ‘a thousand two’, 1002; ekādaśādhikam s°sahasram or ekādaśaṃ s° or ekādaśa-s°, ‘a thousand eleven’ or ‘a thousand having eleven’, 1011; viṃśaty-adhikaṃ s° or vimaṃ s°, ‘a thousand twenty’, 1020; dve sahasre or dvi-sahacram, ‘two thousand’; trīṇi sahasrāṇi or tri-sahasram, ‘three thousand’ &c.), [RV.] &c. &c.

sahasra : a thousand cows or gifts (= sahasraṃ gavyam &c., used to express wealth; sahasraṃ śatāśvam, ‘a thousand cows and a hundred horses’, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]), [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] (in later language often = ‘1000 Paṇas’, e.g. [Mn. viii, 120]; [336] &c.)

sahasra : any very large number (in [Naigh. iii, 1] among the bahu-nāmāni; cf. sahasra-kiraṇa &c. below)

sahasra : sahásra mf(I)n. a thousandth or the thousandth (= sahasra-tama which is the better form; cf. [Pāṇ. v, 2, 57]).

yāvat : yā́vat mf(atI)n. (fr. 3. ya; correlative of tāvat, q.v.) as great, as large, as much, as many, as often, as frequent, as far, as long, as old &c. (or how great &c. = quantus, quot or qualis), [RV.] &c. &c. (yā́vantaḥ kíyantaḥ, ‘as many as’, [TBr.]; yā́vad vā yāvad vā, ‘as much as possible’, [ŚBr.]; yāvat tāvat, ‘so much as’, in alg. applied to the first unknown quantity [= x] or so much of the unknown as its co-efficient number; in this sense also expressed by the first syllable yā cf. [IW. 182]; iti yāvat in Comms. ‘just so much’, ‘only so’, ‘that is to say’, ‘such is the explanation’)

yāvat : yā́vat ind. as greatly as, as far as, as much or as many as

yāvat : as often as, whenever

yāvat : as long as, whilst

yāvat : as soon as, the moment that, until that, till, until, [RV.] &c. &c. (in these senses used with either pres. Pot. fut. impf., or aor., or with the simple copula). with the 1st sg. of pres., rarely of Pot., may denote an intended action and may be translated by ‘meanwhile’, ‘just’

yāvat : yā́vad yāvad-tā́vat tāvat, ‘as gradually as-so’, [ŚBr.]

yāvat : yāvan na, ‘while not’, ‘before’, ‘till’

yāvat : ‘if not’, ‘whether not’

yāvat : na yāvattāvat, ‘scarcely-when’, ‘no sooner-than’

yāvat : na param or na kevalam-yāvat, ‘not only-but even’. Sometimes is also used as a preposition with a prec. or following acc., or with a following abl., rarely dat., e.g. māsam ekaṃ yāvat, ‘during one month’

yāvat : sūryodayaṃ yāvat, ‘until sunrise’

yāvat : sarpa-vivaraṃ yāvat, ‘up to the serpent's hole’

yāvat : yāvad or yāvad-ā samāpanāt, ‘until the completion’

yāvat : yāvad garbhasya paripākāya, ‘until the maturity of the fetus’. Sometimes also with a nom. followed by iti, e.g. anta iti yāvat, ‘as far as the end’

yāvat : pañca yāvad iti, ‘up to five’

yāvat : yā́vat ind. or with another ind. word, e.g. adya yāvat, ‘up to this day’. yāvatā ind. as far as, as long as, [Āpast.]; [R.]; [BhP.]

yāvat : yā́vat ind. till, until (with Pot.), [Lāṭy.] (with na, as long as not, before, [BhP.])

yāvat : as soon as, the moment that, [Cat.]

yāvat : in as much as, [Pat.]

yāvat : yā́vat ind. yāvati-tāvati, [Daś.]

brahma : m. a priest (see asura-, ku-, mahābr°)

brahma : n. the one self-existent Spirit, the Absolute, [R.]

brahma : in comp. for brahman. — Observe that in the following derivatives the nom. n. (Brahmă) is used for the impersonal Spirit and the nom. m. (Brahmā) for the personal god.

brahman : bráhman n. (lit. ‘growth’, ‘expansion’, ‘evolution’, ‘development’ ‘swelling of the spirit or soul’, fr. √ 2. bṛh) pious effusion or utterance, outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods, prayer, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]

brahman : the sacred word (as opp. to vāc, the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text or Mantra used as a spell (forming a distinct class from the ṛcas, sāmāni and yajūṃṣi; cf. brahma-veda), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [Pur.]

brahman : the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Veda, [Mn. iv, 100]

brahman : the sacred syllable Om, [Prab.], Sch., (cf. [Mn. ii, 83])

brahman : religious or spiritual knowledge (opp. to religious observances and bodily mortification such as tapas &c.), [AV.]; [Br.]; [Mn.]; [R.]

brahman : holy life (esp. continence, chastity; cf. brahma-carya), [Śak. i, 24/25]; [Śaṃk.]; [Sarvad.]

brahman : (exceptionally treated as m.) the Brahmă or one self-existent impersonal Spirit, the one universal Soul (or one divine essence and source from which all created things emanate or with which they are identified and to which they return), the Self-existent, the Absolute, the Eternal (not generally an object of worship but rather of meditation and-knowledge ; also with jyéṣṭha, prathama-já, svayám-bhu, a-mūrta, para, paratara, parama, mahat, sanātana, śāśvata; and = paramātman, ātman, adhyātma, pradhāna, kṣetra-jña, tattva), [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. ([IW. 9, 83] &c.)

brahman : bráhman n. the class of men who are the repositories and communicators of sacred knowledge, the Brāhmanical caste as a body (rarely an individual Brāhman), [AV.]; [TS.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [BhP.]

brahman : food, [Naigh. ii, 7]

brahman : wealth, [ib.] [10]

brahman : final emancipation, [L.]

brahman : (brahmán), m. one who prays, a devout or religious man, a Brāhman who is a knower of Vedic texts or spells, one versed in sacred knowledge, [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : [cf. Lat., flāmen]

brahman : N. of Bṛhas-pati (as the priest of the gods), [RV. x, 141, 3]

brahman : one of the 4 principal priests or Ṛtvijas (the other three being the Hotṛ, Adhvaryu and Udgātṛ; the Brahman was the most learned of them and was required to know the 3 Vedas, to supervise the sacrifice and to set right mistakes; at a later period his functions were based especially on the Atharva-veda), [RV.] &c. &c.

brahman : Brahmā or the one impersonal universal Spirit manifested as a personal Creator and as the first of the triad of personal gods (= prajā-pati, q.v.; he never appears to have become an object of general worship, though he has two temples in India See [RTL. 555] &c.; his wife is Sarasvatī, [ib.] [48]), [TBr.] &c. &c.

brahman : = brahmaṇa āyuḥ, a lifetime of Brahmā, [Pañcar.]

brahman : an inhabitant of Brahmā's heaven, [Jātakam.]

brahman : the sun, [L.]

brahman : N. of Śiva, [Prab.], Sch.

brahman : the Veda (?), [PārGṛ.]

brahman : the intellect (= buddhi), [Tattvas.]

brahman : N. of a star, δ Aurigae, [Sūryas.]

brahman : a partic. astron. Yoga, [L.]

brahman : N. of the 9th Muhūrta, [L.]

brahman : (with Jainas) a partic. Kalpa, [Dharmaś.]

brahman : N. of the servant of the 10th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [L.]

brahman : of a magician, [Rājat.]

sthā : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 30]) tíṣṭhati, °te (pf. tasthaú, tasthe, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. ásthāt, ásthita, [ib.]; 3. pl. asthiran, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; āsthat [?] [AV.]; asthiṣi, °ṣata, [Br.] &c.; Subj. sthāti, sthā́thaḥ, [RV.]; Prec. stheyāt, [ib.]; stheṣam, °ṣuḥ [?] [AV.]; sthāsīṣṭa Gr.; fut. sthātā, [MBh.] &c.; sthāsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. sthā́tum, [ib.]; °tos, [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]; -sthitum, [R.]; ind.p. sthitvā, [MBh.] &c.; -sthā́ya, [RV.] &c. &c.; -sthāyam, [Bhaṭṭ.]), to stand, stand firmly, station one's self, stand upon, get upon, take up a position on (with pādābhyām, ‘to stand on the feet’; with jānubhyām, ‘to kneel’; with agre or agratas and gen., ‘to stand or present one's self before’; with puras and with or without gen., ‘to stand up against an enemy &c.’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to stay, remain, continue in any condition or action (e.g. with kanyā, ‘to remain a girl or unmarried’; with tūṣṇīm or with maunena instr. ‘to remain silent’; with sukham, ‘to continue or feel well’), [AV.] &c. &c.; to remain occupied or engaged in, be intent upon, make a practice of, keep on, persevere in any act (with loc.; e.g. with rājye, ‘to continue governing’; with śāsane, ‘to practise obedience’; with bale, ‘to exercise power’; with sva-dharme, ‘to do one's duty’; with sva-karmaṇi, ‘to keep to one's own business’; with saṃśaye, ‘to persist in doubting’; also with ind.p., e.g. dharmam āśritya, ‘to practise virtue’), [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to continue to be or exist (as opp. to ‘perish’), endure, last, [TS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be, exist, be present, be obtainable or at hand, [AV.] &c. &c.; to be with or at the disposal of, belong to (dat. gen., or loc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; (Ā. mc. also P. cf. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 23]; [4, 34]) to stand by, abide by, be near to, be on the side of, adhere or submit to, acquiesce in, serve, obey (loc. or dat.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to stand still, stay quiet, remain stationary, stop, halt, wait, tarry, linger, hesitate (see under sthitvā below), [RV.] &c. &c.; to behave or conduct one's self (with samam, ‘to behave equally towards any one’ loc.); to be directed to or fixed on (loc.), [Hariv.]; [Kathās.]; to be founded or rest or depend on, be contained in (loc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; to rely on, confide in (loc., e.g. mayi sthitvā, ‘confiding in me’), [Bhaṭṭ.]; to stay at, resort to (acc.), [R.]; to arise from (abl. or gen.), [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to desist or cease from (abl.), [Kathās.]; to remain unnoticed (as of no importance), be left alone (only Impv. and Pot.), [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.] : Pass. sthīyate (aor. asthāyi), to be stood &c. (frequently used impers., e.g. mayā sthīyatām, ‘let it be abided by me’ i.e. ‘I must abide’), [Br.] &c. &c.: Caus. sthāpayati, °te (aor. átiṣṭhipat; ind.p. sthāpayitvā [q.v.] and -sthā́pam: Pass. sthāpyate), to cause to stand, place, locate, set, lay, fix, station, establish, found, institute, [AV.] &c. &c.; to set up, erect, raise, build, [MBh.]; [R.]; to cause to continue, make durable, strengthen, confirm, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Suśr.] &c.; to prop up, support, maintain, [MBh.]; [Hcat.]; to affirm, assent, [Sāh.]; [Nyāyas.], Sch.; to appoint (to any office loc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause to be, constitute, make, appoint or employ as (two acc.; with dhātrīm, ‘to employ any one as a nurse’; with rakṣārtham, ‘to appoint any one as guardian’; with sajjam, ‘to make anything ready’ ; with su-rakṣitam, ‘to keep anything well guarded’; with svīkṛtya, ‘to make anything one's own’; with pariśeṣam, ‘to leave anything over or remaining’), [ŚvetUp.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to fix, settle, determine, resolve, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to fix in or on, lead or bring into, direct or turn towards (loc., rarely acc.; with hṛdi, ‘to impress on the heart’; with manas, ‘to fix the mind on’), [AV.] &c. &c.; to introduce or initiate into, instruct in (loc., e.g. with naye, ‘to instruct in a plan or system’), [MBh.]; [Kathās.]; to make over or deliver up to (loc. or haste with gen., ‘into the hands of’), [Yājñ.]; [Ratnāv.]; [Kathās.]; to give in marriage, [MBh.]; to cause to stand still, stop, arrest, check, hold, keep in, restrain (with baddhvā, ‘to keep bound or imprisoned’), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to place aside, keep, save, preserve, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] : Desid. of Caus. -sthāpayiṣati (see saṃ-√ sthā) : Desid. tíṣṭhāsati, to wish to stand &c., [ŚBr.] : Intens. teṣṭhīyate; tāstheti, tāsthāti Gr.

sthā : [cf. Gk. ἱ-στάναι; Lat. stare; Lith. stóti; Slav. stati; Germ. stân, stehen; Eng. stand.]

sthā : sthā́ (or ṣṭhā́), mfn. (nom. m. n. sthā́s) standing, stationary (often ifc. = ‘standing, being, existing in or on or among’, cf. agni-ṣṭhā, ṛta-sthā &c.), [RV.]; [PañcavBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

vāk : in comp. for vāc.

vāc : vā́c f. (fr. √ vac) speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum &c.), [RV.] &c. &c. (vācam-√ ṛ, īr, or iṣ, to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call)

vāc : a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (vācaṃ-√ vad, to speak words; vācaṃ vyā-√ hṛ, to utter words; vācaṃ-√ dā with dat., to address words to; vācā satyaṃ-√ kṛ, to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth)

vāc : Speech personified (in various manners or forms, e.g. as Vāc Āmbhṛṇī in [RV. x, 125]; as the voice of the middle sphere in [Naigh.] & [Nir.]; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajā-pati and married to him; in other places she is called the mother of the Vedas and wife of Indra; in [VP.] she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa; but most frequently she is identified with Bhāratī or Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech; vācaḥ sāma and vāco vratam N. of Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.]; vācaḥ stomaḥ, a partic. Ekāha, [ŚrS.])