Nityanaimittika, Nitya-naimittika: 7 definitions

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In Hinduism

Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)

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Source: archive.org: Catalogue of Pancaratra Agama Texts

Nityanaimittika (नित्यनैमित्तिक) refers to the “regular and occasional (worship disabilities)” is the name of the eleventh chapter of the Agastyasaṃhitā (agastya-brahma-saṃvāda edition), an ancient Pāñcarātra Āgama text dealing with typical Pāñcarātra concepts such as the Vyūhas.—[Cf. the chapter nityanaimittika-prāyaścitta-vidhi]:—The rules in this chapter cover a variety of shortcomings, in each case giving the type of defect first, followed by the appropriate remedial steps to be taken. [...]

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Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.

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Marathi-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Nityanaimittika in Marathi glossary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

nityanaimittika (नित्यनैमित्तिक).—a (S) Constant and occasional.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

nityanaimittika (नित्यनैमित्तिक).—a Constant and occasional.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Nityanaimittika (नित्यनैमित्तिक).—an occasional act regularly recurring, or any ceremony constantly performed to accomplish a particular object, e. g. (a parvaśrāddha).

Derivable forms: nityanaimittikam (नित्यनैमित्तिकम्).

Nityanaimittika is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms nitya and naimittika (नैमित्तिक).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Nityanaimittika (नित्यनैमित्तिक).—n.

(-kaṃ) Any act or ceremony which though occasional is of irregular recurrence, as Sraddhas at fixed lunar periods. E. nitya, and naimittika occasional; also nityanaimittikakarmman .

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

Nityanaimittika (नित्यनैमित्तिक):—[=nitya-naimittika] [from nitya] n. (with or [scilicet] karman) any regularly recurring occasional act or ceremony or any rite constantly performed to accomplish some object (as Śrāddhas at fixed lunar periods), [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Nityanaimittika (नित्यनैमित्तिक):—[nitya-naimittika] (kaṃ) 1. n. A constantly occurring ceremony.

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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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