As a deity name
Name 692 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 227 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 652 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 921 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
काष्ठा · noun · feminine
हद । अवधि । उच्चतम चोटी या ऊँचाई । उत्कर्ष · पल का समय या एक एक कला का · वाँ भाग । ४ । चंद्रमा की एक कला — Śabdasāgara
काष्ठा · kāshṭhā · s.f.
A quarter or point of the compass, a cardinal point; space, tract; place; mark, goal, limit, boundary — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 801
Cited formation "काष्ठा" is काष्ठ + -आ: काष्ठ means "Wood, timber", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "काष्ठा" is काष्ठ + -आ: काष्ठ means "Wood, timber", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a place for running, race-ground, course (also the course, path or track of the wind and clouds in the atmosphere)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kāṣṭhā" is the feminine form of "kāṣṭha" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
kāṣṭhā f. a place for running, race-ground, course (also the course, path or track of the wind and clouds in the atmosphere), RV.
the mark, goal, limit, VS.; TS.; ŚBr. &c.
the highest limit, top, summit, pitch, Kum.; Daś. &c.
a quarter or region of the world, cardinal point, Naigh.; Nir.; MBh. &c.
the sixteenth part of the disk of the moon, BhP. i, 12, 31
kāṣṭha m. N. of one of Kubera's attendants, MBh. ii, 415
kāṣṭha (am), n. a piece of wood or timber, stick, ŚBr.; KātyŚr.; Mn. &c.
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