pīṭha पीठ – seat; posture; pīṭha

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pīṭha ·n. seat, stool, bench, pedestal.

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pīṭha pīṭha, am, n. (thought by some to be a Prākṛt form fr. pi-sada = pi-ṣada = pi-ṣḍa or connected with rt. piṭh), a stool, seat, chair, bench; a religious student's seat made properly of Kuśa grass; the seat of a deity, an altar (according to some native authorities in this and the preceding senses also as, ī, m. f.); a basis, basement, pedestal; an epithet of various temples (erected on the fifty- one spots on which, according to tradition, the various members of Pārvatī fell after she had been cut to pieces by the discus of Viṣṇu); a kind of orna- ment; a particular posture in sitting; (in geometry) the complement of a segment; N. of an Asura the minister of Kaṃsa.

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pīṭha n. TRIK. 3,5,7. 1〉 Stuhl, Sitz, Bank AK. 3,4,25,171. VYUTP. 217. n. AK. 2,6,3,40. H. 684. HALĀY. 2,155. m.n. TRIK. 2,6,40. — PĀR. GṚHY. 1,15. MBH. 1,5415. MBH. 4,96. pīṭhaṃ dattvā sādhavo 'bhyāgatāya MBH. 5,1399. MBH. 12,1444. MBH. 12,13345. MBH. 13,6699. HARIV. 7230. HARIV. 9606. R. 2,69,14. R. 2,81,11. RAGH. 4,84. RAGH. 6,15. Schol. zu P. 1,3,24. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 50,38. aṅghrisaroja˚ BHĀG. P. 3,5,41 (pīḍha gedr.) PRAB. 81,5. Inschr. in Journ. of the Am. Or. S. 6,519, Śl. 26. pīṭhacchattropānaham VOP. 6,7. havirdhānasya ĀPAST._bei_SĀY._zu_AIT. BR. 1,30. paṅgu˚ Schol. zu Uṇ. 3,28; vgl. pīṭhaga, pīṭhasarpa, pīṭhasarpin. mahīpratīhārapīṭhādhikāraṃ pratipadya Stuhl so v. a. Amt RĀJA-TAR. 4,484. Statt dessen 142 fälschlich mahāpratīhārapīḍā. pīṭhī f. ŚABDAR._im_ŚKDR. — 2〉 n. Stuhl, Sitz in übertr. Bed., Unterlage, Piedestal: liṅga˚ RĀJA-TAR. 2,126. RĀJA-TAR. 4,274. RĀJA-TAR. 5,46. ˚garbha die Vertiefung in dem Piedestal eines Götterbildes, = piṇḍikāśvabhra BHAṬṬOTPALA_zu_VARĀH. BṚH. S. 59,17. ˚vivara dass. ders. zu VARĀH. BṚH. S. 58,54. karṇa˚ die äussere Mündung des Gehörgangs SUŚR. 1,56,10. aṃsa˚ Schulterblatt SUŚR. 126,1. SUŚR. 340,18. SUŚR. 350,13. HARIV. 13165. karikumbha˚ Spr. 1545. Auch pīṭhī f.: gṛhāṇāṃ dārubandhāya pīṭhyām H. an. 2,492; vgl. pīṭhikā unter pīṭhaka. — 3〉 n. Bez. bestimmter Heiligthümer (wohl die verschiedenen Glieder der Pārvatī darstellend) auf Plätzen (51 an der Zahl), an denen der Sage nach die Glieder der bei Dakṣaʼs Opfer von Viṣṇu in Stücke zerhauenen Pārvatī niedergefallen sein sollen, ŚKDR. ˚sthāna WILSON_in_VP. LVII. 499, N. 26. Hierher vielleicht ˚devī RĀJA-TAR. 5,473. Vgl. u. jvālāmukhī. — 4〉 ein best. Schmuck: kirīṭapīṭhamukuṭairaṅgadairapi maṇḍitāḥ HARIV. 8063. — 5〉 n. Bez. einer bestimmten Art zu sitzen Verz. d. Oxf. H. 11,a, N. 1. — 6〉 n. das Complement eines Segments COLEBR. Alg. 84. — 7〉 m. N. pr. eines Asura MBH. 7,386. MBH. 12,12956. Minister Kaṃsaʼs HARIV. 9155. — Vgl. kathāpīṭha, tarkupīṭha, tarkupīṭhī, dharmapīṭha, nayapīṭhī, pādapīṭha, bhadra˚.

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pīṭha 1〉 ˚stha KATHĀS. 103,165. Thronsessel WEBER, RĀMAT. UP. 321. fgg. WILSON, Sel. Works 1,200. — 4〉 zu streichen, da mit der neueren Ausg. kirīṭāpīḍa˚ zu lesen ist. — 7〉 füge am Ende BHĀG. P. 10,59,12 hinzu.

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pīṭha 1〉 akṣanivapana˚ Spieltisch DURGA_zu_NIR. 3,5. — 8〉 so v. a. District, Provinz: dhārā˚ (so nach KERN zu lesen) PAÑCAT. ed. Bomb. IV & V 20,2. avantī˚ PAÑCAT. ed. Bomb. 3.

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pīṭha — 1〉 n. — a〉 Stuhl, Sitz, Bank, Tisch BHĀVAPR. 2,21. auch *f. ī — b〉 Thronsessel. — c〉 Stuhl. so v. a. Amt. — d〉 Unterlage, piedestal Auch *f. ī — e〉 Bez. bestimmter Heiligthümer auf Plätzen, an denen der Sage nach die Glieder der bei Dakṣaʼs Opfer von Viṣṇu in Stücke zerhauenen Pārvatī niedergefallen sein sollen. — f〉 District, Provinz. — g〉 eine best. Art zu sitzen. — h〉 das Complement eines Segments. — 2〉 m. — a〉 ein best. Fisch Ind. St. 14,375. — b〉 *die Sonne GAL. — c〉 N. pr. eines Asura = kirīṭapīṭha˚ HARIV. 80,63. Fehlerhaft für kirīṭāpīḍa.

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pīṭha IV. 1〉a〉 f. pīṭhī ebend. 2,64. DAMAYANTĪK. 197. [Nachtrag, Band 7]

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pīṭhaṃ 1 A seat (a stool, chair, bench, sofa &c.); javena pīṭhādudatiṣṭhadacyutaḥ Śi. 1. 12; R. 4. 84; R. 6. 15. 2 The seat of a religious student made of Kuśa grass. 3 The seat of a deity, an altar. 4 A pedestal in general, basis. 5 A particular posture in sitting. 6 (In geometry) The complement of a segment. Comp. — keliḥ a male confidant, a parasite. — ga a. lame, crippled — garbhaḥ the cavity in the pedestal of an idol. — cakraṃ a carriage. — nā yikā a girl of fourteen who represents Durgā at the festival of that goddess. — bhūḥ f. basis, basement. — mardaḥ 1 a companion, parasite, one who assists the hero of a drama in great undertakings, e. g. in securing his ([Page 0704-c]) mistress; so pīṭhamardikā ‘a lady who assists the heroine in securing her lover’. 2 a dancing master who instructs courtezans in the art of dancing. — sarpa a. lame, crippled.

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pīṭha n. Stuhl, Bank (auch ˚ka), Sitz, Unterlage, Piedestal.

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pīṭha pīṭha m. n. et pīṭhi ou pīṭhā f. siége, banc, escabeau; siège d'un étudiant. pīṭhasarpin m. (sṛp) cul-de-jatte, homme perclus qui va sur un siège à roues.