निदर्शनnidarśanaa.Pointing, showing.
- Pointing, showing.
- Proclaiming, declaring announcing.
- Teaching.
Derived forms and compounds
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-नम्
- View, insight, looking into, sight, vision; शुद्धात्मा ब्राह्मणो रात्रौ निदर्शनमपश्यत Mb.12.217.14.
- Pointing to, showing.
- Proof, evidence; बलिना सह योद्धव्यमिति नास्ति निदर्शनम् Pt.3.23.
- An instance, example, illustration; ननु प्रभुरेव निदर्शनम् Ś.2; निदर्शनसाराणां लघुर्बहुतृणं नरः Śi.2.5; R.8.45; जनकस्य नृपेन्द्रस्य तपसः सन्निदर्शनम् Pratimā 4.14.
- Injunction.
- Authority, text.
- A scheme, system.
- A precept, scriptural authority, an injunction.
- The third member of an Indian syllogism (usually called उदाहरण quod vide, which see).
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-ना A figure of speech (in Rhetoric) thus defined: निदर्शना । अभवन्वस्तुसंबन्ध उपमापरिकल्पकः K. Parasmaipada1; Exempli gratia, for example R.1.2.