===> [ niyama ]3[ ni-yama ] m. restraining, checking, holding back, preventing, controlling cf. Mn. cf. MBh. &c. (1) keeping down, lowering (as the voice) cf. RPrāt. (2) limitation, restriction ([ ena ] ind. with restrictions i. e. under certain conditions cf. Car.) (3) reduction or restriction to (with loc. or [ prati ]), determination, definition
cf. GṛŚrS. cf. Prāt. cf. MBh. cf. Rājat (4) any fixed rule or law, necessity, obligation ([ ena ] and [ At ] ind. as a rule, necessarily, invariably, surely) cf. Var. cf. R. cf. Suśr. &c. (5) agreement, contract, promise, vow cf. R. cf. Kathās (6) 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 ], q. v.) cf. TĀr. cf. Mn. cf. MBh. cf. Kāv. &c. (7) a partic. process applied to minerals (esp. to quicksilver, w. r. [ °yAma ]) cf. Cat. (8) (in rhet.) a common-place, any conventional expression or usual comparison (9) (in Mīm. phil.) a rule or precept (laying down or specifying something otherwise optional) (10) restraint of the mind (the 2nd of the 8 steps of meditation in Yoga) (11) performing five positive duties cf. MWB. 239 (12) N. of Viṣṇu cf. MBh. (13) Necessity or Law personified as a son of Dharma and Dhṛti cf. Pur. (14) [ -dharma ] m. a law prescribing restraints cf. Mn. ii, 3 (15) [ -niSThA ] f. rigid observance of prescribed rites cf. MW. (16) [ -pattra ] n. a written agreement or stipulation cf. ib. [ 552,2 ] (17) [ -para ] mfn. observing fixed rules (18) relating to or corroborative of a rule cf. W. (19) [ -pAla ] m. ` observer of vows ', N. of a sage (from whom the Nepalese derive the N. Nepāl) (20) [ -bhaGga ] m. breach of a stipulation or contract cf. MW. (21) [ -laGghana ] n. trangression of a fixed rule or obligation, Kāp (22) [ -vat ] mfn. practising religious observances cf. MBh. (23) ([ I ]), f. a woman in her monthly courses cf. Suśr. (24) [ -sthiti ] f. state of selfrestraint, ascetism cf. L. (25) [ -hetu ] m. a regulating cause cf. Sarvad

---> [ °yam^ananda ] m. another N. of Nimb^arka cf. Cat. (26) [ °yam^opamA ] f. a simile which expressly states that something can be compared only with something else cf. Kāv. ii, 19