| nidāna | निदान | nidāná mfn. reproached, ridiculed, [ib.] |
| ni-°dā́na n. a band, rope, halter, [RV. vi, 32, 6]; [MBh.] |
| a first or primary cause (cf. ni-bandhana), [RV. x, 114, 2]; [Br.]; [Kāṭh.] |
| original form or essence (°nena ind. originally, essentially, properly), [Br.] |
| (with, [Buddh.]) a cause of existence (12 in number), [MWB. 56]; [103] |
| any cause or motive, [Divyāv.] |
| the cause of a disease and enquiry into it, pathology (= nidāna-sthāna, q.v.), [L.] |
| = nidāna-sūtra, [Cat.] |
| cessation, end, [L.] |
| purification, correctness, [L.] |
| claiming the reward of penitential acts, [L.] |
| nidānavat | निदानवत् | ni-°dā́na—vat (nidā́na-), mfn. funded on a cause, essential, [TBr.]; [Kāṭh.] |
| nidānavid | निदानविद् | ni-°dāna—vid mfn. knowing the causes or symptoms of a disease, [BhP.] |
| nidānasthāna | निदानस्थान | ni-°dāna—sthāna n. the subject of the causes of diseases, pathology (one of the 5 departments of medic. science), [Suśr.] |
| nidānasūtra | निदानसूत्र | ni-°dāna—sūtra n. N. of wk. on metres and Vedic Stomas |
| nidānatattva | निदानतत्त्व | nidāna—tattva n. N. of wk. |
| nidānapradīpa | निदानप्रदीप | nidāna—pradīpa m. N. of wk. |
| nidānasaṃgraha | निदानसंग्रह | ni-°dāna—saṃgraha m. N. of a medic. wk. |