स्तूप a &c. See
p. 1260, col. 1.
स्तूप m. bm. (
accord. to
[Sāy.] fr. √
स्त्यैaccord. to
[Uṇ.] fr. √
3.स्तु;
prob. connected with
स्तुप॑, under √
3.स्तु) a knot or tuft of hair, the upper part of the head, crest, top, summit ([
cf. Gk. στύπος]),
[RV.] ;
[TS.] [PañcavBr.] a heap or pile of earth or bricks &c., (
esp. ) a
Buddhist monument, dagoba (generally of a pyramidal or dome-like form and erected over sacred relics of the great
बुद्ध or on spots consecrated as the scenes of his acts),
[MWB. 504] any relic-shrine or relic-casket (made of various materials, such as terra cotta, clay, elaborately formed brick or carved stone; often very small and portable, and enclosing a fragment of bone or a hair &c. of some saint or deceased relative, or inscribed with a sacred formula; these are carried long distances and deposited in hallowed spots such as
बुद्ध-गया),
[MWB. 397, 504] any heap, pile, mound, tope,
[Hcat.] the main beam (of a house),
[ĀpGṛ.] कूल (
[L.also] , ‘wind; fight; = ; =
बल; =
निष्प्रयोजन’).