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Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary

प्रतिष्ठाप्यpratiṣṭhāpyamfn. to be placed or located or fixed TS. AitBr.
1. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective to be placed or located or fixed TS. AitBr.
2. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective to be consigned or transferred or entrusted to (locative case) MBh.
In the Gita6·11

शुचौ देशे प्रतिष्ठाप्य स्थिरमासनमात्मनः ।

śucau deśe pratiṣṭhāpya sthiramāsanamātmanaḥ, — He should set in a pure spot his firm seat, neither too high, nor yet too low, covered with a cloth, with a deer skin, with sacred grass, and seated… 6·11
- प्रतिष्ठाप्यpratiṣṭhāpyaindeclinable past participle or gerund form of the causative form of the verbal root ṣṭhā (to stand) with the prefix prati ( to set firmly).
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