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Noun
स्तिया • (stíyā) stem, f (Rigvedic)
- still or stagnant water
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 6.44.21:
- वृषा॑सि दि॒वो वृ॑ष॒भः पृ॑थि॒व्या वृषा॒ सिन्धू॑नां वृष॒भः स्तिया॑नाम् ।
वृष्णे॑ त॒ इन्दु॑र्वृषभ पीपाय स्वा॒दू रसो॑ मधु॒पेयो॒ वरा॑य ॥- vṛ́ṣāsi divó vṛṣabháḥ pṛthivyā́ vṛ́ṣā síndhūnāṃ vṛṣabháḥ stíyānām .
vṛ́ṣṇe ta índurvṛṣabha pīpāya svādū́ ráso madhupéyo várāya . - You are the bull of earth, the bull of heaven, bull of the rivers, bull of standing waters.
For you, O mighty one, the sweet-flavoured delicious Soma, is ready to be quaffed.
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References
- Monier Williams (1899) “स्तिया”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1260.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “stiyā”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “स्तिया”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 362