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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)
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
āśrama
11
Yoga
11
Kashmirian Shivaism
10
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism
10
Buddha's life
9
Alchemy
9
penance, prāyaścitta
8
Yogācāra
8
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya
7
Sacrifice, yajña
7
good behaviour
7
karman doctrine
7
eating, food, anna
6
vānaprastha
6
svarga, heaven
6
Brahmin
6
King, rājanīti
6
Nyāya
6
Kāmaśāstra
6
Giving, dāna
6
botany, plants
6
fast, upavāsa, upavasatha
5
Names of Śiva, sahasranāman
5
Grammar
5
Lexicography
5
Mahābhārata
4
dīkṣā
4
sahasranāman
4
worship
4
narrative literature
4
Genealogies
4
śrāddha
4
hathayoga
4
vrata
4
prāyaścitta
4
Logic
4
saṃnyāsa
4
dāna, giving
3
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman
3
Asceticism, tapas
3
Indra
3
dharma
3
Law
3
Tripura
3
war
3
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca
3
rasāyana
3
āpaddharma
3
Tāraka
3
truth, satya, ṛta
3
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra
3
Sāṃkhya
3
gṛhastha, householder
3
Paraśurāma
3
Anti-social behaviour
3
(Im-)purity
3
begging, bhikṣu, bhikṣā
2
daṇḍa, punishment
2
Pitṛ worship, pitṛyajña
2
cow
2
Dharmaśāstra
2
senses, indriya
2
Pārvatī
2
Crime
2
fever, jvara, takman
2
Hospitality, atithi, guests, ātithya
2
Zoology
2
rebirth, transmigration
2
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha
2
marriage, wedding
2
Women
2
Behaviour, strīdharma
2
anadhyāya, interrupting the Veda study
2
punishment for crime
2
Creation of the world
2
creates fever
2
praise of Viṣṇu (namas)
2
Professions
2
cāturmāsya
1
samāvartana
1
utsarga, utsarjana, dismissal
1
prāṇa etc.
1
upanayana, initiation
1
stotriyavikāra
1
bad behaviour
1
Nahuṣa
1
linguistic speculation
1
Structure of the world
1
cremation
1
(handing over the) daṇḍa
1
saṃsāra
1
destruction of Dvārakā
1
Yayāti, Devayānī, Śarmiṣṭhā
1
darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi, full-moon sacrifice
1
Trita and his brothers
1
general or default rules for the sacrifice
1
Prajāpati's children
1
snātaka
1
(prophesy about the) kaliyuga
1
female ascetics
1
vyavahāra
1
daiva vs. puruṣakāra
1
vighasa, eating the remainder of food
1
Sunda and Upasunda
1
arghya
1
Nature poetry
1
Meditation
1
Criminal law
1
Nandin
1
Dāruvana
1
Brideship and marriage
1
Cosmogony (gen.)
1
Inheritance, heritage, heirs
1
Witness
1
Military science
1
pralaya, destruction of the world
1
Cosmogony
1
Politics
1
mantra
1
Shivaite Tantrism
1
Religion and Philosophy
1
Astrology
1
avatāras
1
pregnancy
1
Psychology
1
Kṣatriya
1
jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge
1
poverty, renunciation
1
Budha, Mercury
1
grahas
1
Architecture
1
pātaka
1
Moral literature
1
Technique of Yoga
1
Trade
1
Debt
1
Mahāyāna
1
Vaiśeṣika
1
Prostitution
1
triguṇa
1
Saṃjñā and Vivasvant
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
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