astaH [ asyaMte sUryakiraRA yatra as-ADAre kta ] 1 Setting or western mountain (behind which the sun is supposed to set); aDiroQumastagirimaByapatat Śi. 9. 1 ; viqaMbayatyastanimagnasUryaM R. 16. 11 ; yAtyekatostaSiKaraM patirozaDInAM Ś. 4. 1. 2 Sunset. 3 Setting in general; ( fig. ) fall, decline; see below. 4 Conjunction of a planet with the sun: SakrAsta, buDAsta &c. — staM 1 Home, abode, residence ( Ved. ); Rv. 7. 1. 2 , 10. 34. 10. 2 Death, end. 3 The seventh house (in astr. ); ( lagnAtsaptamaM sTAnaM ). — staM ind. At home, home; astaM gam , — yA, -i, -prAp ( a ) To set, decline in the western horizon; gatostamarkaH the sun has set; ( fig. ) it is time to do the duties to be performed at sunset; e. g. for a cowherd to drive home his cattle, for a religious person to begin his prayers, for a thief to begin his nightly work &c.; kaTamihavE yuvayorastamitaH sUryaH V. 3 and Sarva. S. 1. ( b ) To cease, vanish, be removed, disappear, be at an end; vizayiRaH kasyApado'staM gatAH Pt. 1. 146 ; DftirastamitA R. 8. 66 ; daMqenAstamitatvizA Ku. 2. 23 ; astamitEzA kaTA K. 156 at an end, over; 198 , 204. ( c ) To die; aTa cAstamitA tvamAtmanA R. 8. 51 , 12. 11. Comp. — acalaH , — adriH, -giriH, -parvataH the setting or western mountain. — avalaMbanaM the resting of a heavenly body on the western part of the horizon, being about to set. — udayO (dual) rising and setting, rise and fall; astodayAvadiSadapraviBinnakAlaM Mu. 3. 17. — ga a. set, become invisible (as a planet or star). — gamanaM 1 setting, disappearance. 2 death, sunset of life; Māl. 9.