nigamaH 1 The Veda or Vedic text; sAQyE sAQvA sAQeti nigame P. VI. 3. 113 , VII. 2. 64 ; Māl. 9. 4. 2 Any passage or word quoted from the Vedas, a Vedic sentence; taTApi ca nigamo Bavati (often found in Nirukta). 3 ( pb ) A work auxiliary to, and explanatory of, the Vedas; Ms. 4. 19 and Kull. thereon. 4 A sacred precept, the words of a god or holy man. 5 A root (as the source of a word). 6 Certainty, assurance. 7 Logic. 8 Trade, traffic. 9 A market, fair. 10 A caravan of wandering merchants. 11 A road, market-road. 12 A city. 13 Insertion of the name of a deity into a liturgical formula.