स्थापनम

{ sthāpanama }

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

स्थापनम [sthāpanama]   [स्था-णिच्-ल्युट्]
   (a) The act of causing to stand, fixing; founding, establishing, instituting; [Mb. 12.255.3.] (b) regulating, directing.
    fixing the thoughts, concentration of the mind, steady application, abstraction.
   A dwelling, habitation.
   A ceremony performed on a woman's perceiving the first signs of living conception; cf. पुंसवन.
    fastening, rendering immovable; उत्थापनैरुन्नयनैश्चालनैः स्थापनैरपि । परस्परं जिगीषन्तावुपचक्रतुरात्मनः ॥ [Bhāg.1.44.5.]
    founding, erecting (a temple, image &c.).
    preservation, prolongation (of life).
   A means of stopping (the flow of blood), styptic.
    storage (of grain).
    establishment of a proposition. -Comp.
-वृत्त a.  a. one who is past all restoration to strength.