Nyas: 5 definitions

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Nyas means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Nyas (न्यस्).—4 P.

1) To set or put down, place, throw down; शिखरिषु पदं न्यस्य (śikhariṣu padaṃ nyasya) Meghadūta 13; दृष्टिपूतं न्यसेत् पादम् (dṛṣṭipūtaṃ nyaset pādam) Manusmṛti 6.46.

2) To lay or throw aside, abandon, give up, resign, relinquish; स न्यस्तचिह्नामपि राजलक्ष्मीम् (sa nyastacihnāmapi rājalakṣmīm) R.2.7; न्यस्तशस्त्रस्य (nyastaśastrasya) Ve.3.18; so प्राणान् न्यस्यति (prāṇān nyasyati) &c.

3) To put in, place within, place or put down upon anything (with loc.); शिरस्याज्ञा न्यस्ता (śirasyājñā nyastā) Amaruśataka 82; चित्रन्यस्त (citranyasta) 'committed to picture', V.1.4; स्तनन्यस्तोशीरं (stananyastośīraṃ) Ś.3.8 'applied'; अयोग्ये न मद्विधो न्यस्यति भारतग्र्यम् (ayogye na madvidho nyasyati bhāratagryam) Bhaṭṭikāvya 1.22; Meghadūta 61.

4) To entrust, consign, commit to the care of, deliver; अहमपि तव सूनौ न्यस्तराज्यः (ahamapi tava sūnau nyastarājyaḥ) V.5.17; भ्रातरि न्यस्य माम् (bhrātari nyasya mām) Bk. 5.82.

5) To give to, confer or bestow upon; रामे श्रीर्न्य- स्यतामिति (rāme śrīrnya- syatāmiti) R.12.2.

6) To state, bring forward, adduce, propound (as an argument); अर्थान्तरं न्यस्यति (arthāntaraṃ nyasyati) Malli. on Śiśupālavadha 1.17.

7) To settle, fix, appoint.

8) To support.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Nyas (न्यस्).—(also asati) throw or put down, lay aside, put or pour in ([locative]), apply to ([locative]), turn (the eyes) upon ([locative]), deposit, commit to (loc), give up, relinquish; bring forward, mention.

Nyas is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ni and as (अस्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Nyas (न्यस्):—[=ny-√as] [Parasmaipada] -asyati, or -asati, to throw or cast or lay or put down (with [locative case] e.g. bhuvi, on the earth), [Atharva-veda] etc. etc.;

—to take off, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa];

—to give up, resign (as life), [Rāmāyaṇa];

—to set in the ground, plant (prarohān, shoots), [Bālarāmāyaṇa];

— (with [locative case]) to throw or hurl upon, pour or shed on or in, put or place or fix or insert in, turn or direct to, deposit with, intrust or commit to;

—to settle arrange, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc. (with citre, ‘to place in a picture’, paint, depict; with śirasi, ‘to place on the head’, receive with reverence; with manasi, ‘to call to mind’, reflect, ponder; with pathi, ‘to lay on the road’, give up);

—to bring forward, mention, [Mallinātha] :

—[Causal] ([perfect tense] nyāsayām āsa or sayāṃ cakre) to cause to put or lay down, [Mahābhārata]

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Nyas (न्यस्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Ṇasa, Ṇima, Ṇisa, Ṇubha.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Nyas in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) a trust; deposit; arrangement; ~[dhari] a trustee..—nyas (न्यास) is alternatively transliterated as Nyāsa.

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