niyogaH 1 Employment, use, application. 2 An injunction, order, command, direction, commission, charge, appointed task or duty, any business committed to one's care; yaH sAvajYo mADavaSrIniyoge M. 5. 8 ; mano niyogakriyayotsukaM me R. 5. 11 ; aTavA niyogaH KalvIdfSo maMdaBAgyasya U. 1 ; AjYApayatu ko niyogonuzWIyatAmiti Ś. 1 ; tvamapi svaniyogamaSUnyaM kuru ‘go about your own business’, ‘do your appointed duty’, (frequently occurring in plays, and used as a courteous way of asking servants to withdraw). 3 Fastening or attaching to. 4 Necessity, obligation; tatsizeve niyogena sa vikalpaparANramuKaH R. 17. 49. 5 Effort, exertion. 6 Certainty, ascertainment. 7 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, the son so born being called kzetraja ; cf. Ms. 9. 59 : - devarAdvA sapiMqAdvA striyA samyaN niyuktayA . prajepsitADigaMtavyA saMtAnasya parikzaye .. ; see 60 , 65 also. (Vyāsa begot pAMqu and DftarAzwra on the widows of vicitravIrya in this way).