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V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary. Look up any word of the Gita in Devanagari, IAST or Harvard-Kyoto, or browse the headwords letter by letter.

Entry निवृत्त

  1. निवृत्तnivṛttaReturn.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -त्तम्

      1. Return.
      2. A mind free from the influence of passions.
    • -आत्मन् Masculine

    • निवृत्त nivṛtta, Past passive participle

      1. Returned, turned back.
      2. Gone, departed, vanished, disappeared.
      3. Ceased, refrained or abstained from, stopped, desisted; तस्थौ निवृत्तान्यवरा- भिलाषः Ku.1.51.
      4. Abstaining from worldly acts, abstracted from this world, quiet; प्रवृत्तं च निवृत्तं च द्विविधं कर्म वैदिकम् Ms.12.88.
      5. Repenting of improper conduct.
      6. Finished, completed, whole;
      7. Set (as the sun); see वृत् with नि.
      8. a sage.
      9. an epithet of Viṣṇu.
    • -इन्द्रिय Adjective one whose senses or desires are averted from.

    • -कारण Adjective without further cause or motive. (-णः ) a virtuous man, a man uninfluenced by worldly desires.

    • -मांस Adjective one who abstains from eating meat; निवृत्तमांसस्तु जनकः Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)4.

    • -यौवन Adjective one whose youth has returned, restored to youth.

    • -राग Adjective of subdued passions.

    • -लौल्य Adjective not desirous.

    • -वृत्ति Adjective quitting any practice or occupation.

    • -हृदय Adjective with relenting heart.

    In the Gita14·22

    न द्वेष्टि सम्प्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति ॥

    ta dveṣṭi sampravṛttāni na nivṛttāni kāṅkṣati. — The Blessed Lord said:- He, O Pandava, who does not abhor or shrink from the operation of enlightenment (the result of rising sattva) or impulsion to… 14·22
    • निवृत्तानिnivṛttāniaccusative plural of the neuter form of the past participial adjective nivṛtta (that which is receded or has ceased to exist).

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Headwords under न

Part 9 of 12 निविष्ट – निष्क्काथAll parts
  1. न – नमस्यु
  2. नमित – नाडिका
  3. नाडिकेल – निंस्
  4. निःक्षत्र – निग्रह्
  5. निग्रह – निफेनम्
  6. निब – निरुध्
  7. निरूढ – निर्मोक्ष
  8. निर्मोचनम् – निविशेष
  9. निविष्ट – निष्क्काथ
  10. निष्क्रम् – नीवर
  11. नीवाक – नैर्मल्यम्
  12. नैर्लज्जम् – न्योजस्