English Explanatory Dictionary

nayika

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the eight types of romantic heroine described in the Natya Shastra, an ancient Indian treatise on the performing arts.

Word forms

nayika nayikas

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit नायिका (nāyikā).

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