sTApanaM [ sTA-Ric-lyuw ] 1 ( a ) The act of causing to stand, fixing, founding, establishing, instituting. ( b ) Regulating, directing. 2 Fixing the thoughts, concentration of the mind, steady application, abstraction. 3 A dwelling, habitation. 4 A ceremony performed on a woman's perceiving the first signs of living conception; cf. puMsavana .