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Entry न्यस्

न्यस्nyas4 P.
1. 4 Parasmaipada
2. To set or put down, place, throw down; शिखरिषु पदं न्यस्य Me.13; दृष्टिपूतं न्यसेत् पादम् Ms.6.46.
3. To lay or throw aside, abandon, give up, resign, relinquish; स न्यस्तचिह्नामपि राजलक्ष्मीम् R.2.7; न्यस्तशस्त्रस्य Ve.3.18; so प्राणान् न्यस्यति etc.
4. To put in, place within, place or put down upon anything (with Locative); शिरस्याज्ञा न्यस्ता Amaru.82; चित्रन्यस्त 'committed to picture', V.1.4; स्तनन्यस्तोशीरं Ś.3.8 'applied'; अयोग्ये न मद्विधो न्यस्यति भारतग्ऱ्यम् Bk.1.22; Me.61.
5. To entrust, consign, commit to the care of, deliver; अहमपि तव सूनौ न्यस्तराज्यः V.5.17; भ्रातरि न्यस्य माम् Bk. 5.82.
6. To give to, confer or bestow upon; रामे श्रीर्न्य- स्यतामिति R.12.2.
7. To state, bring forward, adduce, propound (as an argument); अर्थान्तरं न्यस्यति Malli. on Śi.1.17.
8. To settle, fix, appoint.
9. To support.
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मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा ।

mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi saṁnyasyādhyātmacetasā, — Giving up thy works to Me, with thy consciousness founded in the Self, free from desire and egoism, fight delivered from the fever of thy soul. 3·30
- सन्न्यस्यsannyasyaindeclinable past participle or gerund form of the verbal root nyas (to put down, to give up, to resign, to throw or hurl upon) with the prefix sam.
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