[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Auxiliary Sciences of the Veda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga) › [Etymology and Vedic lexicon](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta) › [Yāska's Nirukta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska) › 1.1 # Yāska's Nirukta 1.1 Nirukta 1.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska.1.1) samāmnāyaḥ samāmnātaḥ sa vyākhyātavyaḥ tam imam samāmnāyam nighaṇṭava ity ācakṣate nighaṇṭavaḥ kasmān nigamā ime bhavanti chandobhyaḥ samāhṛtya samāhṛtya.(samāhatya ṛ).samāmnātāḥ te nigantava eva santo nigamanān nighaṇṭava ucyanta ity aupamanyavaḥ api vā hananād eva syuḥ samāhatā bhavanti yad vā samāhṛtā bhavanti tad yāny.\[etāni.Bh\].catvāri pada jātāni nāma ākhyāte ca upasarga nipātāś ca tāni imāni bhavanti tatra etan nāma ākhyātayor lakṣaṇam pradiśanti bhāva pradhānam ākhyātam sattva pradhānāni nāmāni tad yatra ubhe bhāva pradhāne bhavataḥ pūrva aparī bhūtam bhāvam ākhyātena ācaṣṭe vrajati pacati iti upakrama prabhṛty apavarga paryantam mūrtam sattva bhūtam sattva nāmabhir vrajyā paktir iti ada iti sattvānām upadeśo gaur aśvaḥ puruṣo hastī iti bhavati iti bhāvasya āste śete vrajati tiṣṭhati iti indriya nityam vacanam audumbarāyaṇaḥ - [Next: 1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska.1.2) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska.1) ## Commentaries (4) - [Ṛjvarthā (Niruktavṛtti)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska!durga.3.2) — Durgācārya, Sanskrit - [Niruktavṛtti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska!durgacarya.3.2) — Durgācārya, Sanskrit - [Niruktaṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska!skandasvamin) — Skandasvāmin & Maheśvara, Sanskrit - [Niruktavivaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska!mahesvaratirtha) — Maheśvaratīrtha, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (10) - [The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v5.c33.1) — Karl H. Potter, English - [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c93.279) — P. V. Kane, English - [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s10.13) — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English - [Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.muir-1868.v2.c18.s10.14) — John Muir, English - [Altindische Grammatik](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.wackernagel-1896.v4.c15.s3.t3.177) — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German - [History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1997.v1.c39.s3.8) — A. K. Bag, English - [India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c10.s3.t1.100) — V. S. Agrawala, English - [The Mauryan Polity](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1932.c5.s2.t2.13) — V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar, English - [Nighaṇṭu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.nighantu.1.16) — Yāska, Sanskrit - [On the Aindra School of Sanskrit Grammarians, their Place in the Sanskrit and Subordinate Literatures](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.burnell-1875.c5.25) — A. C. Burnell, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska.1.1) · Pramāṇa