Sthapanama, Sthāpanama: 1 definition

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Sthāpanama (स्थापनम).—[sthā-ṇic-lyuṭ]

1) (a) The act of causing to stand, fixing; founding, establishing, instituting; Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.255.3. (b) Regulating, directing.

2) Fixing the thoughts, concentration of the mind, steady application, abstraction.

3) A dwelling, habitation.

4) A ceremony performed on a woman's perceiving the first signs of living conception; cf. पुंसवन (puṃsavana).

5) Fastening, rendering immovable; उत्थापनैरुन्नयनैश्चालनैः स्थापनैरपि । परस्परं जिगीषन्तावुपचक्रतुरात्मनः (utthāpanairunnayanaiścālanaiḥ sthāpanairapi | parasparaṃ jigīṣantāvupacakraturātmanaḥ) || Bhāgavata 1.44.5.

6) Founding, erecting (a temple, image &c.).

7) Preservation, prolongation (of life).

8) A means of stopping (the flow of blood), styptic.

9) Storage (of grain).

1) Establishment of a proposition.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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