न्यास (nyāsa) is a Sanskrit word meaning putting away, taking off, or laying aside, abandoning, resigning, depositing, intrusting, delivering, any deposit or pledge, written or literal text, lowering the voice. Its 26 recorded definitions are grouped into 10 contexts, among them Placing, Applying, or Writing (Action), A Deposit or Pledge (Object), Cross-reference or Etymological Note.
1. Setting down, planting, or putting on. 2. Insertion or impact. 3. Applying, drawing, or commitment. 4. Writing down or inscribing. 5. A written text. 6. Renunciation or laying aside. 7. A deposit. 8. Bringing forward or adduction.
न्यास (nyāsa) [Printed book page 148-3] न्यास (nyāsa) ni‿āsa, m. setting down, planting (the foot); putting on; insertion, impact; applying, drawing, commitment; writing down, inscribing; written text; renunciation; laying aside; deposit; bringing forward, adduction: -dhāraka,m. depository. [ID=10952]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Placing or depositing. 2. A deposit or pledge. 3. Entrusting or delivering. 4. Painting, writing down, or stamping. 5. Abandoning or relinquishing. 6. Bringing forward or adducing. 7. Seizing with claws. 8. Mental assignment of body parts to divinities with prayers and gestures.
न्यास (nyāsa) [Printed book page 400-15] न्यास (nyāsa)m. 1. Placing, putting on, planting, तस्याः खुरन्यास (nyāsa)पवित्रपांसुम् (tasyāḥ khuranyāsapavitrapāṃsum)R. ii.2, K.S. vi.50; 2. depositing; 3. a deposit, a pledge, काणेलीमातः वसंतसेना तव हस्ते (kāṇelīmātaḥ vasaṃtasenā tava haste)Mrich. viii., R. xii.18; 4. entrusting, committing, delivering; 5. painting, writing down, stamp, mark; 6. giving up, abandoning, relinquishing, Bg. xviii.2; 7. bringing forward, adducing; 8. seizing, (with the claws), अतिशस्त्रनखन्यास (nyāsa)ः शैलरुग्णमतंगजः (atiśastranakhanyāsaḥ śailarugṇamataṃgajaḥ)R. xii.73; 9. mental assignment of the various parts of the body to several divinities accompanied by prayers and jesticulations. [ID=20529]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Planting. 2. Striking or seizing. 3. Seizing with claws. 4. Putting on. 5. Writing down. 6. Laying aside. 7. A deposit.
न्यास (nyāsa) [Printed book page 0496-b] न्यास (nyāsa)nyāsa,i. e.ni- 2. as + a,m.1.
Planting (as the foot), Rām. 5, 31, 60.
2. Striking in, seizing with, Ragh. 12,
73. 3. Seizing with one's claws, MBh.
12, 552. 4. Putting on, Kathās. 8, 15.
5. Writing down, Böhtl. Ind. Spr. 170.
6. Laying aside, Vikr. 87, 2; Bhag. 18,
2. 7. A deposit, Yājñ. 2, 67. — Comp.
Caraṇa-,m. trace of a foot, Megh. 56.
[ID=7909]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Putting down, placing, or settling. 2. Writing or painting. 3. Depositing a pledge. 4. Giving up, abandoning, or renunciation.
न्यास (nyāsa) [Printed book page 184-b] nyāsa,m. a putting down, commitment. [√2as + ni, ‘throw down.’] [ID=2396]
— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary
1. Putting down, placing, or stepping. 2. A deposit or pledge. 3. Delivering or intrusting. 4. Painting or applying color. 5. Writing down or impressing a mark. 6. Laying aside, abandoning, or deserting. 7. Lowering the tone of the voice. 8. Adducing or bringing forward. 9. Digging in or seizing with claws. 10. Mental assignment of body parts to deities with prayers and gestures. 11. Name of a commentary on the Kashika-vritti.
न्यास (nyāsa) [Printed book page 0519-a] Ny-āsa, as, m. putting down, placing, settling, planting or putting down (the feet), stepping, a step; depositing; a deposit, pledge; delivering, intrusting, committing, delivery; putting on colour &c., painting; writing down, writing, impress, stamp, mark; giving up, putting off or away, laying aside; deserting, abandoning; lowering the tone of the voice; bringing forward, adducing; striking or digging in (the claws &c.), seizing (with the claws); con- signing or intrusting anything to the mind; mental appropriation or assignment of various parts of the body to tutelary divinities (accompanied with certain prayers and gesticulations); N. of a commentary on the Kāśikā-vṛtti by Jinendra. —Nyāsa-dhārin, ī, m. the holder of a deposit, a mortgagee. —Nyāsā-pahnava (°sa-ap°), as, m. repudiation of a deposit. —Nyāsī-kṛ, cl. 8. P. A. -karoti, -kurute, -kar-tum, to make a deposit, deposit anything with a person. —Nyāsoddyota (°sa-ud°), as, m., N. of a grammatical work. [ID=26599]
1. A deposit or pledge. 2. Deserting or abandoning. 3. Delivering or presenting. 4. Consigning something to the mind. 5. Mental assignment of body parts to deities with prayers and gestures.
न्यास (nyāsa) [Printed book page 489] न्यास (nyāsa) m. (-सः (-saḥ))
1 A deposit, a pledge.
2 Deserting, abandoning.
3 Delivering, presenting.
4 Mental delivering, consigning or entrusting any thing to the mind.
5 Mental appropriation or assignment of various parts of the body to tutelary divinities, accompanied with certain prayers and gesticulations.
E. नि (ni) before अस (asa) to throw or cast away, aff. घञ् (ghañ).
[ID=22690]
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A deposit or pledge. 2. A deserting. 3. Delivering to another or to memory.
न्यास (nyāsa) [Printed book page 436-b] न्यास (nyāsa)(सः) ((saḥ)) 1. m. A deposit or pledge; a deserting; a delivering to another or to memory. [ID=22163]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A deposit or pledge. 2. Deserting or abandoning. 3. Delivering or presenting. 4. Mental entrusting to the mind. 5. Mental assignment of body parts to deities with prayers and gestures. 6. Painting, stamp, or mark. 7. Bringing forward. 8. Seizing with claws.
न्यास (nyāsa) [Printed book page 409-b] न्यास (nyāsa)
m. (-सः (-saḥ))
1. A deposit, a pledge.
2. Deserting, abandoning.
3. Delivering, presenting.
4. Mental delivering, consigning or entrusting any thing to the mind.
5. Mental appropriation or assignment of various parts of the body to tutelary divinities. accompanied with certain prayers and gesticulations.
6. Painting, stamp, mark.
7. Bringing forward.
8. Seizing. (with the claws.) E. नि (ni) before, अस् (as) to throw or cast away, aff. कर्मणि, भावे वा घञ् (karmaṇi, bhāve vā ghañ).
[ID=22675]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Cross-reference or Etymological Note
3 definitions3
See under ny-as
(H1) [Printed book page 573,1] न्य्-आस (ny-āsa)b &c. See under न्य्-अस् (ny-as). [ID=112963]
mental appropriation or assignment of various parts of the body to tutelary deities
mental appropriation or assignment of various parts of the body to tutelary deities, Religious Thought and Life in India, also called ’Brāhmanism and Hindūism,’ by Sir M. Monier-Williams (Title) 205 &c. [ID=112779]
न्यास (nyāsa) [Printed book page 2-269] Nyāsa(mantra) — in connection with the installation of an image; eg. Ratnanyāsa for the eight directions: diamond, pearl, vaiḍūrya, conch, spaṭika, puṣparāga, indranīla and nīla; pastes of eight kinds: tālaka, śilāvajra, collyrium, śyāma, kañji, kāśi, mākṣikam, and gairikam; grains of eight kinds: wheat, barley, seasamum, mudga, nīvāra, śyāmaka, sarṣapa, and vrīhirice, scents like sandal, red sandal, agaru, añjanam, uśīram, vaiṣṇavī sahadevī, and Lakṣmaṇa; metals of eight kinds: gold, vidruma, copper, bronze, ārakūṭaka, silver, puṣpam and iron. Then the worship of the Lokhapālas with Nyāsamantras. M. 266. 9-29. [ID=7392]
— The Purana Index
Technical Usage (Voice, Music)
2 definitions2
lowering the voice
lowering (the voice), Ṛg-veda-prātiśākhya (Title) [ID=112775]
