As a deity name
Name 212 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 238 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
As a Hindi name
स्थित · adj
अपने स्थान पर ठहरा हुआ । टिका हुआ । जैसे,—इस भवन की छत खंभों पर स्थित है · लटका हुआ । अबलंबित · बैठा हुआ । आसीन । जैसे,—वे अपने आसन पर स्थित हो गए — Śabdasāgara
स्थित · noun · masculine
अवस्थान । निवास · कुलमर्यादा · खड़ा रहना । रुका रहना । ठहरना (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
स्थित · sthita · part.
Stood, stayed, remained, stopped; standing; abiding, dwelling, residing, resident; fixed, permanent, established, settled, steady, firm, immovable, stable, steadfast, determined, resolved — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 640
स्थित
located, placed, stood
स्थित
located in
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi स्थित — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit स्थित (sthitá). Doublet of था (thā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sthita mfn. standing (as opp. to ‘going’, ‘sitting’, or ‘lying’; parasparaṃ sthitam, ‘standing opposed to each other’; sthitaṃ tena, ‘it was stood by him’ = ‘he waited’), Mn.; MBh. &c.
standing firm (yuddhe, ‘in battle’), Hariv.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
standing (as opp. to ‘going’, ‘sitting’, or ‘lying’; parasparaṃ sthitam, ‘standing opposed to each other’; sthitaṃ tena, ‘it was stood by him’ = ‘he waited’), &c.
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sthita mfn. standing (as opp. to ‘going’, ‘sitting’, or ‘lying’; parasparaṃ sthitam, ‘standing opposed to each other’; sthitaṃ tena, ‘it was stood by him’ = ‘he waited’), Mn.; MBh. &c.
standing firm (yuddhe, ‘in battle’), Hariv.
standing, staying, situated, resting or abiding or remaining in (loc. or comp.; with uccāvaceṣu, ‘abiding in things high and low’; with anityam, ‘not remaining permanently’, ‘staying only a short time’), KātyŚr.; Mn.; MBh. &c.
being or remaining or keeping in any state or condition (loc., instr. abl. comp., or a noun in the same case, also ind.p. or adv.; vyāpya sthitaḥ, ‘he keeps continually pervading’, Śak.; Vikr.; upaviśya sthitaḥ, ‘he remains sitting’, Vikr.; kathaṃ sthitāsi, ‘how did you fare?’, Vikr. ; evaṃ sthite, ‘it being so’, Pañc.; puraḥ sthite, ‘it being imminent’), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
engaged in, occupied with, intent upon, engrossed by, devoted or addicted to (loc. or comp.), performing, protecting, Mn.; MBh. &c.
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