niyama (m)
Bedeutungen
- (in Mīm. phil.) a rule or precept (laying down or specifying something otherwise optional)
- (in rhet.) a common-place
- a particular process applied to minerals (esp. to quicksilver)
- agreement
- 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)
- any conventional expression or usual comparison
- any fixed rule or law
- checking
- contract
- controlling
- definition
- determination
- holding back
- keeping down
- limitation
- lowering (as the voice)
- name of Viṣṇu
- necessity
- Necessity or Law personified as a son of Dharma and Dhṛti
- performing five positive duties
- preventing
- promise
- reduction or restriction to
- restraining
- restraint of the mind (the 2nd of the 8 steps of meditation in Yoga)
- vow
= niyāmana
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