nItArTa
nītārtha , adj. ( cf. BR s.v. nī, 12, establish, determine ; = Pali nītattha), of clear, definite, well-established meaning ; opp. a-nītārtha or neyārtha , having a meaning that is not (clearly) established, that has to be determined (by inference or the like); see LaVallée-Poussin, AbhidhK. ix.246—8 for very complete and illuminating discussion of these terms in Pali and BHS . (In Pali neither is ipso facto preferred to the other; one errs only in interpreting one as if it were the other, nītattha as neyyattha, or vice versa ; see esp. AN i.60.13—15 , and comm. ii.118.7—27 ; Dīpav. 5.34 , Oldenberg p. 36 , and LaV-P. l. c. ) In BHS a nītārtha text, de sens explicite ( LaV-P. ), is recommended as a guide in preference to one that is neyārtha, Mvy 1549 ; Bbh 257.10 ff. Equivalent to neyārtha is a-nītārtha, for which see LaV-P. l. c. 248 .