stūpa | स्तूप | stUpa
stūpa | स्तूप | &c. See p. 1260, col. 1.
stū/pa | स्तू/प | m. (accord. to Sāy. fr. √ styE | स्त्य्E | accord. to Uṇ. fr. √ 3. stu | स्तु |; prob. connected with stupa/ | स्तुप/ |, under √ 3. stu | स्तु |) a knot or tuft of hair, the upper part of the head, crest, top, summit [cf. Gk. στύπος], RV.; TS.; PañcavBr.
a heap or pile of earth or bricks &c., (esp.) a Buddhist monument, dagoba (generally of a pyramidal or dome-like form and erected over sacred relics of the great Buddha or on spots consecrated as the scenes of his acts), MWB. 504
any relic-shrine or relic-casket (made of various materials, such as terra cotta, clay, elaborately formed brick or carved stone; often very small and portable, and enclosing a fragment of bone or a hair &c. of some saint or deceased relative, or inscribed with a sacred formula; these are carried long distances and deposited in hallowed spots such as Buddha-Gayā), MWB. 397, 504
any heap, pile, mound, tope, Hcat.
the main beam (of a house), ĀpGṛ.
(L. also, ‘wind; fight; = kūla | कूल |; = bala | बल |; = niśprayojana | निश्प्रयोजन |’).
stū/pa | स्तू/प | m. (accord. to Sāy. fr. √ styE | स्त्य्E | accord. to Uṇ. fr. √ 3. stu | स्तु |; prob. connected with stupa/ | स्तुप/ |, under √ 3. stu | स्तु |) a knot or tuft of hair, the upper part of the head, crest, top, summit [cf. Gk. στύπος], RV.; TS.; PañcavBr.
a heap or pile of earth or bricks &c., (esp.) a Buddhist monument, dagoba (generally of a pyramidal or dome-like form and erected over sacred relics of the great Buddha or on spots consecrated as the scenes of his acts), MWB. 504
any relic-shrine or relic-casket (made of various materials, such as terra cotta, clay, elaborately formed brick or carved stone; often very small and portable, and enclosing a fragment of bone or a hair &c. of some saint or deceased relative, or inscribed with a sacred formula; these are carried long distances and deposited in hallowed spots such as Buddha-Gayā), MWB. 397, 504
any heap, pile, mound, tope, Hcat.
the main beam (of a house), ĀpGṛ.
(L. also, ‘wind; fight; = kūla | कूल |; = bala | बल |; = niśprayojana | निश्प्रयोजन |’).