Nityanadhyaya, Nityānadhyāya, Nitya-anadhyaya: 4 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryNityānadhyāya (नित्यानध्याय).—invariable suspension of Vedic studies; नित्यानध्याय एव स्याद् ग्रामेषु नगरेषु च (nityānadhyāya eva syād grāmeṣu nagareṣu ca) Manusmṛti 4.17.
Derivable forms: nityānadhyāyaḥ (नित्यानध्यायः).
Nityānadhyāya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms nitya and anadhyāya (अनध्याय).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryNityānadhyāya (नित्यानध्याय).—m.
(-yaḥ) A period when the perusal of the Vedas is invariably prohibited, as the day of full moon, new moon, the eighth and fourteenth days of the half month. E. nitya always, an negative prefix, adhyāya to be read.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryNityānadhyāya (नित्यानध्याय):—[from nitya] m. invariable suspension of repetition of the Vedas (as on the day of full moon etc.), [Horace H. Wilson]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryNityānadhyāya (नित्यानध्याय):—[nityā-nadhyāya] (yaḥ-yā-yaṃ) a. Not to be studied on particular days.
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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