1. A mark, aim, target, or butt. 2. A sign, token, prognostic, presage, or omen. 3. A cause, motive, reason, or instrumental cause.
निमित्त (nimitta) [Printed book page 0489-c] निमित्त (nimitta) ni-mitta, am, n. (probably con-
nected with
ni-mā above), a mark, an aim; an
archer's butt, target; sign, token; prognostic, pre-
sage, omen [cf.
dur-n°]; cause, motive, reason,
instrumental or efficient cause, (opposed to
upā-dāna, the material cause);
nimitta is used at the end of
a comp. in the sense ‘having as a motive or cause,’
‘caused or produced by,’ ‘occasioned by,’ e. g.
viṣa- nimittā pīḍā, pain caused by poison; (
am acc.,
ena inst.,
āya dat.,
āt abl.,
asya gen.,
e loc.),
because of, on account of, for the sake of, for the
purpose of, through.
—Nimitta-kāraṇa, am, n. an
instrumental or efficient cause, (especially the Deity
considered as the agent in creation.)
—Nimitta- kāraṇa-tā, f. the state of being the efficient cause.
—Nimitta-kāla, as, m. the period or moment of
time which may be regarded as causing any event;
any given or specific time.
—Nimitta-kṛt, t, m.
‘omen-maker,’ a crow, raven.
—Nimitta-jña, as, ā, am, acquainted with omens.
—Nimitta-jñāna, am, n. ‘knowledge of causes or signs,’ N. of the fifty-
eighth chapter of the Kāma-sūtra by Vātsyāyana.
—Nimitta-tas, ind. by or from a special cause or
reason.
—Nimitta-tā, f. or
nimitta-tva, am, n. the
state of being a cause, causality, instrumentality.
—Nimitta-dharma, as, m. expiation; any occa-
sional or special penance, rite, or obligation.
—Ni- mitta-nidāna, am, n., N. of a work.
—Nimitta- bhūta, as, ā, am, become a cause or reason, being
a cause or means.
—Nimitta-mātra, am, n. the
mere efficient cause or instrument.
—Nimitta-vid, t, m. ‘omen-knower,’ an astrologer.
—Nimitta- vedhin, ī, inī, i, hitting an aim, piercing the mark.
—Nimitta-hetu, us, m. an efficient cause.
—Ni- mittahetu-tva, am, n. the being an instrumental
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—Nimittārtha (°ta-ar°), as, m.
the infinitive mood (in grammar).
—Nimittāvṛtti (°ta-āv°), is, f. dependance upon a special cause or
occasion.
—Nimittī-kṛ, cl. 8. P. A.
-karoti, -ku- rute, -kartum, to make anything a cause, to use as
a cause or means.
—Nimittī-bhū, cl. 1. P.
-bhavati, -vitum, to become a cause or reason for (with loc.).
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