meanings of "niyama"
m.{a-stem}
1.restraining;
2.taming;
3.confining;
4.a restraint;
5.restriction;
6.a rule or precept (in general);
7.regularity;
8.certainty;
9.an agreement;
10.necessity;
11.any voluntary or self-imposed religious observance (dependent on external conditions);
12.any minor observance or lesser vow;
13.penance;
14.(in miim. phil.) a rule or precept which lays down or specifies something which, in the absence of that rule, would be optional;
15.(in yoga phil.) restraint of the mind;
16.(in rhet.) a poetical commonp lace or convention, as the description of the cuckoo in spring;
17.defining;
18.keeping down (as the voice);
19.keeping secret;
20.effort
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