நியாசம்

niyācam   s. Deposit, pledge, mortgage, வைப்பு. 2. Mental appropriation of various parts of the body to the acknowledged divinity--as the joints of the fingers of the right hand in the daily private worship, each of which is touched by the end of the thumb as the appointed incantation is repeated, and the different parts on which sacred ashes are smeared, also ac companied with prescribed incantations, நியதிக்கை. See சந்நியாசம். W. p. 489. NYASA. 4. The Neem or Margosa tree, நிம்பம்.