Bijanyasa, Bījanyāsa, Bija-nyasa: 2 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryBījanyāsa (बीजन्यास).—making known the germ of the plot of a play.
Derivable forms: bījanyāsaḥ (बीजन्यासः).
Bījanyāsa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bīja and nyāsa (न्यास).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryBījanyāsa (बीजन्यास):—[=bīja-nyāsa] [from bīja] m. (in [dramatic language]) the laying down or making known the germ of a plot, [Daśarūpa]
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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