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Lemma: niyama (m)
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(in Mīm. phil.) a rule or precept (laying down or specifying something otherwise optional) (MW)
(in rhet.) a common-place (MW)
Necessity or Law personified as a son of Dharma and Dhṛti (MW)
a particular process applied to minerals (esp. to quicksilver) (MW)
agreement (MW)
any act of voluntary penance or meritorious piety (esp. a lesser vow or minor observance dependent on external conditions and not so obligatory as yama) (MW)
any conventional expression or usual comparison (MW)
any fixed rule or law (MW)
checking (MW)
contract (MW)
controlling (MW)
definition (MW)
determination (MW)
holding back (MW)
keeping down (MW)
limitation (MW)
lowering (as the voice) (MW)
name of Viṣṇu (MW)
name of a Vidyādhara (OH meanings)
necessity (MW)
performing five positive duties (MW)
preventing (MW)
promise (MW)
reduction or restriction to (MW)
restraining (MW)
restraint of the mind (the 2nd of the 8 steps of meditation in Yoga) (MW)
vow (MW)
Topic
Frequency
Pashupata Shaivism 28
Tīrthas 25
Medicine 17
study, śiṣya, adhyāya 16
Liberation, mokṣa, release 14
Shivaism, Śiva 13
varṇas, castes 13
Bhakti 12
Buddhism 12
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism 11
Yoga 11
Mīmāṃsā 11
Kashmirian Shivaism 10
Buddha's life 9
Alchemy 9
Yogācāra 8
penance, prāyaścitta 8
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya 7
Sacrifice, yajña 7
good behaviour 7
karman doctrine 7
Nyāya 6
āśrama 6
eating, food, anna 6
Giving, dāna 6
botany, plants 6
King, rājanīti 6
svarga, heaven 6
Kāmaśāstra 6
fast, upavāsa, upavasatha 5
Grammar 5
Language 5
Lexicography 5
Names of Śiva, sahasranāman 5
sahasranāman 4
prāyaścitta 4
begging, bhikṣu, bhikṣā 4
vrata 4
dīkṣā 4
worship 4
Logic 4
Mahābhārata 4
hathayoga 4
narrative literature 4
śrāddha 4
Genealogies 4
āpaddharma 3
Tāraka 3
rasāyana 3
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca 3
truth, satya, ṛta 3
Anti-social behaviour 3
Paraśurāma 3
Indra 3
Tripura 3
war 3
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman 3
(Im-)purity 3
vānaprastha 3
dāna, giving 3
Law 3
dharma 3
Sāṃkhya 3
gṛhastha, householder 3
Asceticism, tapas 3
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra 3
cow 2
Pārvatī 2
Dharmaśāstra 2
senses, indriya 2
marriage, wedding 2
linguistic speculation 2
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) 2
creates fever 2
fever, jvara, takman 2
punishment for crime 2
Pitṛ worship, pitṛyajña 2
anadhyāya, interrupting the Veda study 2
Crime 2
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha 2
Creation of the world 2
daṇḍa, punishment 2
Brahmin 2
rebirth, transmigration 2
Women 2
avatāras 2
Professions 2
Zoology 2
Hospitality, atithi, guests, ātithya 2
Behaviour, strīdharma 2
general or default rules for the sacrifice 1
Religion and Philosophy 1
Astrology 1
Prostitution 1
Nahuṣa 1
Prajāpati's children 1
Yayāti, Devayānī, Śarmiṣṭhā 1
vighasa, eating the remainder of food 1
destruction of Dvārakā 1
pralaya, destruction of the world 1
Sunda and Upasunda 1
vyavahāra 1
Saṃjñā and Vivasvant 1
Birth, childhood, and youth 1
cremation 1
(prophesy about the) kaliyuga 1
triguṇa 1
pregnancy 1
female ascetics 1
darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi, full-moon sacrifice 1
cāturmāsya 1
upanayana, initiation 1
utsarga, utsarjana, dismissal 1
samāvartana 1
arghya 1
stotriyavikāra 1
(handing over the) daṇḍa 1
snātaka 1
daiva vs. puruṣakāra 1
bad behaviour 1
Trita and his brothers 1
Dāruvana 1
Kṣatriya 1
Cosmogony (gen.) 1
Inheritance, heritage, heirs 1
Witness 1
pātaka 1
Moral literature 1
Architecture 1
Criminal law 1
Military science 1
Nature poetry 1
grahas 1
Brideship and marriage 1
Cosmogony 1
Budha, Mercury 1
Politics 1
saṃsāra 1
poverty, renunciation 1
Trade 1
Technique of Yoga 1
jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge 1
Nandin 1
mantra 1
Psychology 1
Meditation 1
Debt 1
Shivaite Tantrism 1
Mahāyāna 1
Vaiśeṣika 1
prāṇa etc. 1
Structure of the world 1
authority of the Veda 1
Concept Notes Count niyama an injunction the fulfillment of which is meritorius 16 niyamana one of the Saṃskāras of mercury 6 penance voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing 5 limitation an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) 5 rule prescribed guide for conduct or action 2 regulation the act of regulating; "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians" 2
Collocations
= niyāmana (OH meanings)