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STHŪṆA—The civic and sacrificial posts used as memorial pillars, symbolising royal and divine power to which offenders and sacrificial victims were tied, ‘maintained by the Fathers’, upon which ‘Yama makes seats for the departed.’ (*R.V.* x, 18, 3; *A.V.* xviii, 3, 52), made of copper, bronze or iron (ayas, *R.V.* v, 62, 7, 8), a synonym of Stambha or column.—(*M.*, xv, 5; *see under* Stambha.)
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- Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
- Atharvavedasaṃhitā — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit