नियोग

{ niyōgḥ, niyoga }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

NIYOGA   During the Vedic period there prevailed a system or custom which permitted either the husband or the wife who had no child by his wife or her husband to procreate a child in another woman or beget children by another man. That custom, called Niyoga fell into disuse after the Vedic period. [Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 256] .

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

   See : नियुक्ति

A dictionary, Marathi and English

   niyōga m S Appointment or assignation; ordering or authorizing; putting or setting to. 2 A command, mandate, direction, bidding.

Aryabhushan School Dictionary

  m  Appointment. A command, mandate.

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

  पु. १ नेमणूक अथवा योजना ; आज्ञा देणे अथवा अधिकार देणे ; योजणे ; व्यवस्थित लावणे . १ आज्ञा ; हुकूम ; आदेश ; शासन . ३ प्राचीनकाळी वंश खुंटू नये म्हणून स्त्रीच्या ठिकाणी करविलेली प्रजोत्पत्ति ; निपुत्रिक विधवेला अपत्योत्पादनार्थ दिलेली शास्त्राज्ञा . दीर किंवा नवर्‍याचा कोणी आप्त याच्याकडून याच्याकडून पुत्रप्राप्ति करुन घेण्याची शास्त्राने सवलत ठेवलेली असे . नियोगणे - सक्रि . काम सांगणे ; आज्ञा करणे . मज म्या नियोगावे स्वामिसेवकत्वे । - एभा ३ . ७५ . नियोगी - वि . १ नियामक पहा . २ युक्त ; योग्य अधिकारी . तेथ सत्वे आपल्या आंगी समीननिमीन भागी । दोघे केले नियोगी । ब्राम्हण क्षत्रिय । - ज्ञा १८ . ८२८ .

नेपाली (Nepali) WN

   See : नियुक्ति

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

नि-°योग  m.  m. tying or fastening to ( cf. -पाश below)

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नि °योग

   employment, use, application, [Lāṭy.]; [Mṛcch.]
°गात्  n. injunction, order, command ( ind., or °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.
°गेन  n. necessity ( ind. necessarily, certainly, surely, [Ragh.]), obligation, fate, destiny, [Kāv.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

नियोगः [niyōgḥ]   1 Employment, use, application.
   An injunction, order, command, direction, commission, charge, appointed task or duty, any business committed to one's care; यः सावज्ञो माधवश्रीनियोगे [M.5.8;] मनो नियोगक्रिययोत्सुकं मे [R.5.11;] अथवा नियोगः खल्वीदृशो मन्दभाग्यस्य [U.1;] आज्ञा- पयतु को नियोगोऽनुष्ठीयतामिति [Ś.1;] त्वमपि स्वनियोगमशून्यं कुरु 'go about your own business', 'do your appointed duty', (frequently occurring in plays, and used as a courteous way of asking servants to withdraw).
   Fastening or attaching to.
   Necessity, obligation; तत् सिषेवे नियोगेन स विकल्पपराङ्मुखः [R.17.49.]
   Effort, exertion.
   Certainty, ascertainment.
   An invariable rule; न चैष नियोगो वृत्तिपक्षे नित्यः समास इति ŚB. on [MS.1.6.5.]
   Commission, act; न कर्ता कस्यचित् कश्चिन्नियोगेनापि चेश्वरः [Rām. 4.25.5.]
   Right (अधिकार); अलघुनि बहु मेनिरे च ताः स्वं कुलिशभृता विहितं पदे नियोगम् [Ki.1.16.]
   A practice prevalent in ancient times which permitted a childless widow to have intercourse with the brother or any near kinsman of her deceased husband to raise up issue to him, the son so born being called क्षेत्रज; cf. [Ms.9.59.] : देवराद्वा सपिण्डाद्वा स्त्रिया सम्यङ् नियुक्तया । प्रजे- प्सिताधिगन्तव्या सन्तानस्य परिक्षये ॥; see 6, 65 also. (Vyāsa begot पाण्डु and धृतराष्ट्र on the widows of विचित्रवीर्य in this way).

Shabda-Sagara

नियोग  m.  ( -गः)
   1. An order or command.
   2. Authority, appointment. 3. Occupation, appointed duty.
   4. Effort, exertion.
   5. Ascertain- ment, certainty.
   6. Incidence, occurrence.
   7. The practise in ancient times by which a childless widow was permitted to have intercourse with the brother or any other near relative of her deceased husband to raise up issue to him.
    E. नि before, युज् to join, affix घञ् कुत्वम् .

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नि युज् घञ् कुत्वम् .