अव-√ स्था aP. -तिष्ठति (
impf. -अतिष्ठत्;
aor. Subj. -स्थात्;
perf. Ā. 3.
sg. -तस्थे;
perf. p. P. -तस्थिव॑स्)
to go down into (
acc. ), reach down to (
acc. ),
[RV.] ;
[ŚBr.] ;
(
aor. Subj. 2.
pl. -स्थात), to go away from (
abl. ),
[RV. v, 53, 8] ;
(
aor. Subj. 1.
sg. -स्थाम्) to be separated from or deprived of (
abl. ),
[RV. ii, 27, 17] :
Ā. (
[Pāṇ. 1-3, 22] ; rarely
P. e.g. [Bhag. xiv, 23] ;
[BhP.] &c.)
to take one's stand, remain standing,
[ĀśvGṛ.] &c.;
to stay, abide, stop at any place (
loc. ),
[MBh.] &c.;
to abide in a state or condition (
instr. ),
[MBh. i, 5080] ;
[BhP.] &c.;
(with
ind.p. ) to remain or continue (doing anything),
[MBh. i, 5770; iii, 187] (ed. Bomb. ), &c.;
to be found, exist, be present,
[MBh.] ;
[Yājñ. i, 272, &c.] ;
(
perf. 1.
sg. -तस्थे) to fall to, fall into the possession of (
dat. ),
[RV. x, 48, 5] ;
to enter, be absorbed in (
loc. ),
[Mn. vi, 81] ;
to penetrate (as sound or as fame),
[MBh. xiii, 1 845] :
Pass. -स्थीयते, to be settled or fixed or chosen,
[Śak.] :
Caus. (generally
ind.p. -स्थाप्य) to cause to stand or stop (as a carriage or an army &c.), let behind,
[MBh.] &c.;
to place upon (
loc. ), fix, set, array,
[ĀśvGṛ.] &c.;
to cause to enter or be absorbed in (
loc. ),
[MBh. iii, 12502] ;
to render solid or firm,
[R. v, 35, 36] ;
to establish (by arguments)
Comm. on
[Nyāyad.] :
Pass. Caus. -स्थाप्यते, to be kept firm [‘to be separated’
[BR.] ]
[BhP.] अव-स्था f. bf. appearance (in a court of justice),
[Mn. viii, 6o] अनवस्थ ‘stability, consistence’
cf. state, condition, situation (five are distinguished in dramas,
[Sāh.] ), circumstance of age ([
[Pāṇ. 5-4, 146; 6-2, 1 15, &c.] ]) or position, stage, degree
अव-स्था f. f. pl. the female organs of generation,
[RV. v, 19, 1.]