1 Employment, use, ap- plication.

2 An injunction, order, command, direction, commission, charge, appointed task or duty, any business committed to one's care; yaḥ sāvajño mādhavaśrīniyoge M. 5. 8; mano niyogakriyayotsukaṃ me R. 5. 11; athavā niyogaḥ khalvīdṛśo maṃdabhāgyasya U. 1; ājñāpayatu ko niyogonuṣṭhīyatāmiti Ś. 1; tvamapi svaniyogamaśūnyaṃ kuru ‘go about your own business’, ‘do your ap- pointed duty’,...