search `niyoga' in `Apte Dic'

meanings of "niyoga"

m.{a-stem}

1.employment;

2.an injunction;

3.fastening or attaching to;

4.necessity;

5.effort;

6.certainly;

7.an invariable rule;

8.commission;

9.right;

10.a practice prevalent in ancient times which permitted a childless widow to have intercourse with the brother or any near kinsman of her deceased husband to raise up issue to him

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