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niścaya

niścaya m. inquiry, ascertainment, fixed opinion, conviction, certainty, positiveness (itiniścayaḥ, ‘this is a fixed opinion’; yaṃjñā, ‘to ascertain the certainty about anything’; yena ind. or yāt ind. certainly), Mn. ; MBh. ; R. &c.

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1. niścaya

niścaya m. inquiry, ascertainment, fixed opinion, conviction, certainty, positiveness (itiniścayaḥ, ‘this is a fixed opinion’; yaṃjñā, ‘to ascertain the certainty about anything’; yena ind. or yāt ind. certainly), Mn. ; MBh. ; R. &c.

2. niścaya

resolution, resolve, fixed intention, design, purpose, aim (yaṃkṛ, to resolve upon, determine to [ dat. loc. or inf. ]), MBh. ; Kāv. &c.

3. niścaya

(in rhet. ) N. of a partic. figure, Sāh.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.