niyoga | नियोग | niyoga
ni-˚yoga | नि-˚योग | m. tying or fastening to (cf. -pāṣa | -पाष | below)
employment, use, application, Lāṭy.; Mṛcch.
injunction, order, command (˚gāt | ˚गात् | ind., or ˚gena | ˚गेन | ind. by order of, ifc.), commission, charge, appointed task or duty, business (esp. the appointing a brother or any near kinsman to raise up issue to a deceased husband by marrying his widow), Mn. (esp. ix, 59 &c.); MBh.; Kāv.; Suśr. &c.
necessity (˚gena | ˚गेन | ind. necessarily, certainly, surely, Ragh.), obligation, fate, destiny, Kāv.
employment, use, application, Lāṭy.; Mṛcch.
injunction, order, command (˚gāt | ˚गात् | ind., or ˚gena | ˚गेन | ind. by order of, ifc.), commission, charge, appointed task or duty, business (esp. the appointing a brother or any near kinsman to raise up issue to a deceased husband by marrying his widow), Mn. (esp. ix, 59 &c.); MBh.; Kāv.; Suśr. &c.
necessity (˚gena | ˚गेन | ind. necessarily, certainly, surely, Ragh.), obligation, fate, destiny, Kāv.