Sanskrit
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Etymology
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अशोक (aśoka) + वनिका (vanikā) + न्याय (nyāya)
अशोकवनिकान्याय • (aśokavanikānyāya) stem, m
- the rule of the grove of अशोक trees (applied to cases in which a preference of any particular thing among many cannot be accounted for, just as रावण kept सीता in an अशोक grove, but might equally well have kept her in a grove of other trees)