[sthā-ṇic-lyuṭ] 1 (a) The act of causing to stand, fixing, founding, establishing, instituting. (b) Regulating, directing.

2 Fix- ing the thoughts, concentration of the mind, steady application, ab- straction.

3 A dwelling, habitation.

4 A ceremony performed on a woman's perceiving the first signs of living conception; cf. puṃsavana.