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Niruja (adj.) [Sk. ninija. nis+ ruja] ^niroga Sdhp 496.
Nlroga (adj.) [Sk. niroga, nis+ roga] free from disease,
healthy, well, unhurt J 1.421 ; 111.26; iv.31 ; PvA 198
(ni"). Cp. niruja.
Nila (adj.) [Vedic nila, perhaps conn, with Lat. nites to
shine, see Walde, Lat. Wtb. s. v.] dark-blue, blue-black,
blue-green. Nila serves as a general term to designate
the " coloured-black," as opposed to the " colouredwhite
" (pita yellow), which pairs (nila-pita) are both
set off against the " pure " colour-sensations of red
(lohitaka) & white (odata), besides the distinct black or
dark (see kaijha). Therefore n. has a fluctuating
connotation (cp. Mrs. Rh. D. Buddh. Psych, p. 49 &
Dhs. trsl. p. 62), its only standard comb" being that with
pita, e. g. in the enum" of the ten kasipa practices (see
kasina) : nila pita lohita odata; in the description of the
5 colours of the Buddha's eye : nila pitaka lohitaka
kanha odata (Nd^ 235, P under cakkhuma) ; which goes
even so far as to be used simply in the sense of " black
6 white." e. g. VvA 320. Applied to hair (lomani)
D II. 144; M 11. 136. See further enum° at VvA iii
& under kanha. — A in. 239; iv.263 sq., 305, 349;
V.61 ; Vism no, 156, 173; ThA 42 (maha° great blue
lotus) ; Dhs 617 ; Pv 11. 2^ ; PvA 32, 46, 158 ; Sdhp 246,
270, 360.
-abbha a black cloud Pv iv.3'. -abhijati a dark
(unfortunate) birth (cp. kanh") A ni.383 ; -uppala blue
lotus J III. 394 : Vv 45* (==kuvalaya) ; DhA 1384;
-kasina the " blue " kasiija (q. v.) D in. 248 ; Dhs 203 ;
(Vam 172 etc. ; -giva " blue neck," a peacock Sn 221
= maiji-danda-sadisaya givaya n. ti SnA 277) ; -pupphi
N. of plant (" blue-blossom ") J vi.53 : -bijaka a water-
T5lant ("blue-seed") Bdhgh at Vin 111.276; -mani a
sapphire (" blue-stone ") J 11. 112 ; iv. 140 ; DhA iu.254 ;
-vanna blue colour, coloured blue or green J IV.14O (of
the ocean) ; Dhs 246.
Nllaka (adj.) for nila M 11.201 ; see vi°.
Niliya [fr. nlli] an (indigo) hair dye J in. 138 (Com. niliyaka).
inU (f.) [Sk. nili] the indigo plant, indigo colour A 111.230,
2.33-
Ni}a [Vedic nida] a nest (J v.92) : see niddha : cp. "pacchi
bird cage J 11.36 1 ; roga° It 37; vadharoga" Th
1. 1093.
Nivarana (nt. occasionally m.) [Sk. nivarana. nis -|varaija
of vj (vrijoti), see nibbuta & cp. nivarana] an
obstacle, hindrance, only as tt. applied to obstacles in
an ethical .sense & usually enum'' or referred to in a set
of 5 (as panca nivaranani and p. avaranani), viz. kamacchanda,
(abhijjha-)vyapada, thina-middha, uddhaccakukkucca,
vicikiccha i. e. sensuality, ill-will, torpor of
mind or body, worry, wavering (cp. Dhs. l/sl. p. 310) :
D 1.73 ('e, ace. pi), 246; 11.83, 3