sthāpya mfn. to be set up or erected (as an image) VarBṛS

• to be placed in or on (loc.) Yājñ. MBh. &c

• to be installed in or appointed to (an office) R

• to be shut up or confined in (loc.) Kathās

• to be kept (veśmani, 'in the house', i.e. 'as a domestic animal') VarBṛS

• to be kept to (one's duty, loc.), MārkP

• to be plunged in (grief &c., acc.) Kathās

• to be kept in order or curbed or checked or restrained MBh

• m. (prob.) the image of a god Pañcar

• m. or n. a deposit, pledge (= nikṣepa) L