nIrAjanaM · nIrAjanA
nIrAjanaM, -nA 1 Lustration of arms, a kind of military and religious ceremony performed by kings or generals of armies in the month of Āśvina before they took the field; (it was, so to say, a general purification of the king's Purohita, the ministers, and all the various component parts of the army, together with the arms and implements of war, by means of sacred Mantras); R. 4. 25 , 17. 12 ; N. 1. 144. 2 Waving lights before an idol as an act of adoration.
nIrAjanaM, -nA 1 Lustration of arms, a kind of military and religious ceremony performed by kings or generals of armies in the month of Āśvina before they took the field; (it was, so to say, a general purification of the king's Purohita, the ministers, and all the various component parts of the army, together with the arms and implements of war, by means of sacred Mantras); R. 4. 25 , 17. 12 ; N. 1. 144. 2 Waving lights before an idol as an act of adoration.