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ayana

áyana mfn. going, [VS. xxii, 7]; [Nir.]

áyana n. walking, a road, a path, [RV. iii, 33, 7] &c. (often ifc. cf. naimiṣāyana, puruṣāyaṇa, praśamāyana, samudrāyaṇa, svedāyana), (in astron.) advancing, precession, [Sūryas.]

(with gen. [e.g. áṅgirasām, ādityā́nām, gavām, &c.] or ifc.) ‘course, circulation’, N. of various periodical sacrificial rites, [AV.]; [ŚBr.] &c. the sun's road north and south of the equator, the half year, [Mn.] &c., the equinoctial and solstitial points, [VarBṛS.] &c.

way, progress, manner, [ŚBr.]

place of refuge, [Mn. i, 10]

a treatise (śāstra cf. jyotiṣām-ayana), [L.]

áyana See √ ay, col. 2.