aṣokavanikānyāya | अषोकवनिकान्याय | aSokavanikAnyAya
a-ṣoka—vanikā-nyāya | अ-षोक—वनिका-न्याय | m. the rule of the grove of Aśoka trees (applied to cases in which a preference of any particular thing among many cannot be accounted for, just as Rāvaṇa kept Sītā in an Aśoka grove, but might equally well have kept her in a grove of other trees), A.