guidance, practice, conduct, esp. right conduct, propriety; statesmanship, polity Pv-a.114 (˚mangala commonsense), Pv-a.129 (˚sattha science of statecraft, or of prudent behaviour), Pv-a.130 (˚cintaka a lawgiver), Pv-a.131 (˚naya polity & law), Pv-a.132 (˚kusala versed in the wisdom of life); Mil.3 (here meaning the Nyāyaphilosophy cp. Trenckner, Notes p. 58).

Sk. nīti, fr. nīta