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. Applied, sometimes however, to wheaten meal. 2 fig. Crushed, crumbled, ruined state: also defeated or overcome state: also the state of utter expenditure or dissipation, of consumption or exhaustion, of whatever subject or of whatever specific character. Used largely as its derivative पिठाड, or as चूर, चुराडा, धूळ, माती, राख &c. &c. 3 Used enhancingly after गोरा; as गोरा गोरा पीठ Surpassingly fair. 4 Used as ad in the sense Clearly and brightly of the shining of the moon. v पड; as चांदणें पीठ पडतें.
A stool, a low chair or seat. 2 The seat of the religious student, made of the grass कुश. 3 पीठं, in the sense of Seat or spot of eminent residence or abiding, forms compounds such as गुरुपीठ, विद्यापीठ, राजपीठ. 4 also पीठस्थान n A place where a limb of Párvatí is supposed to have fallen when her dead body was cut to pieces by the चक्र of विष्णु. There are fifty-one such places. See महापीठ.
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