in order that not, lest (with Subj. Pot. or Impv.; the verb accented, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 30]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]
[cf. Zd. noid, ‘not’.]
cl. 1. P. nedati, to go, flow (cf. ati-ned and [Naigh. ii, 14]), to censure, blame, [Dhātup. xxi, 8] (cf. √ 1. nid and nind); to be near, [ib.] (prob. an artificial meaning to explain nediṣṭha &c.)
nédiṣṭha mf(A)n. (superl. of neda substituted for antika, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 63]) the nearest, next, very near, [RV.] &c. &c. (am ind. next, in the first place, [ib.]; °ṣṭhāt ind. from the neighbourhood, [AitBr.]; [Kāṭh.])