masculine, neuter
niketa ( m. or nt. ), state of existence, life : paścime bhave paścime nikete paścime samucchraye paścima ātmabhāvapratilambhe Divy 70.2 ; 73.16 ; niketa-sthānāni, bases for (further) lives , Dbh 39.23 , quoted s.vv. unmiñjita, kelāyati (4).
a home; a (temporary) habitation; where someone or something stays or settles or is attached
Niketa [Sanskrit niketa settlement, ni + cināti] 1. house, abode Dhp 91 (= ālaya Dhp-a II 170). 2. (figurative) company, association. (In this sense it seems to be interpreted as belonging to ketu "sign, characteristic, mark," and niketa-sārin would have to be taken as "following the banner or flag of ...", i.e. belonging or attached to, i.e. a follower of, one who is devoted to.) a° not living in company, having na house Snp 207; Miln 244 (+ nirālaya). -vāsin (a°) not living in a house, not associating with anybody Miln 201; -sayana = °vāsin Miln 361; -sārin (a°) "wandering homeless" or "not living in company," i.e. not associating with, not a follower of ... S III 9 f. = Nidd I 198; Snp 844 = S III 9; Pj II 255 = S III 10; Snp 970 (= Nidd I 494 q.v.).
(nt, nt) home; house abode, home Construction: ni + √kit > ket + *a