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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 निषाद

  1. निषादniṣāda1 N. of one of the wild aboriginal tribes in India, such as hunters, fishermen &c.; a mountaineer; मा निषाद…
    1. 1 Name of one of the wild aboriginal tribes in India, such as hunters, fishermen etc.; a mountaineer; मा निषाद प्रतिष्ठां त्वमगमः शाश्वतीः समा Rām.1.2.15; R.14. 52,7; Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)2.5.
    2. A man of a degraded tribe in general, an outcast, a Chāṇḍāla.
    3. Especially, the son of a Brāhmaṇa by a Sūdra woman. Compare ब्राह्मणाद्वैश्य- कन्यायामम्बष्ठो नाम जायते । निषादः शूद्रकन्यायां यः पारशव उच्यते ॥ Ms.1.8.
    4. (In music) The first (more properly the last or seventh) note of the Hindu gamut; गीतकला- विन्यासमिव निषादानुगतम् K.31 (where it has sense 1 also).
    5. Name of a Kalpa.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -वत् Masculine the निषाद note; Mb.12 184.39.

    • -स्थपतिन्यायः The rule according to which when a compound expression is capable of being dissolved as a कर्मधारय or a तत्पुरुष, the former is to be preferred to the latter. This is discussed and established by जैमिनि and शबर in MS.6.1.51-52 in connection with the expression निषादस्थपति.

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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