A.
ABIL: A kind of incense.
ABIR: White scented powder.
ADÁCHH: Red cotton yarn.
ADÁD: Lentils.
ADAGHO BADAGHO: A ceremony performed to drive away insects.
ADHÁSUR: Name of a demon.
ADHIKAMÁS: Intercalary month.
ADI-NÁRÁYAN: A name of Vishnu.
ADO: Useless.
ADULSA: Name of a medicinal plant.
AGÁR: Excreta.
AGASTYA: Name of a sage; name of a constellation.
AGATHI: A tree, Sesbania Grandiflora.
AGATHIO: See Agathi.
AGHÁDA: Name of a plant.
AGHORI: A sect of Hindus.
AGIÁRI: Fire temple of the Pársis.
AGNI: Fire; the deity presiding over fire.
AGNICHAR: An order of evil spirits living in fire.
AGNIHOTRA: A perpetual sacred fire preserved in a hole in the ground for receiving and preserving consecrated fire.
AGNIHOTRI: One who keeps an Agnihotra.
AGNIKUNDA: A hole in the ground, or an enclosed space, on the surface, or a metal square-mouthed vessel, for receiving and preserving consecrated fire.
AGNI-SANSKÁR: The rite of setting fire to a corpse.
AGRI: Name of a caste or an individual of it.
AHALYA: The wife of the sage Gautam.
AHEVA NAVAMI: The ninth day of the dark half of Bhádrapad.
AHI: Name of a demon.
AHIR: A caste of shepherds.
AHUTI: A handful of rice, ghi, sesamum, etc., cast into fire, water, upon the ground etc., as an offering to the deities.
AIRÁVAT: Name of the elephant of Indra; the elephant presiding over the east.
AJA: A goat.
AJAMO: Lingusticum ajwaen.
AKÁSH: The sky.
AKÁSH-GANGA: The milky way.
AKHAND SAUBHÁGYA: Perpetual unwidowhood.
AKIK: A kind of stone.
AKHÁ TRIJ: The third day of the bright half of Vaishákh.
AKSHAYA TRITIYA: See Akhá Trij.
ALAWÁNA: A sort of shawl.
ALWANT: A spirit of a woman dying in childbirth or during menses.
ALU: An esculent vegetable.
AMANI: A kind of tree.
AMAR: Immortal.
AMATHO: Useless.
AMATHO MÁMO: An order of ghosts.
AMÁVÁSYA: The last day of a month.
AMBA: Name of a goddess.
AMBIL: Conjee.
AMBO: Mango.
AMNÁYESHWAR: A name of the god Mahádev.
ANAGH: Name of a vow.
ANAGODHA: See Anagh.
ANANT CHATURDASHI: The fourteenth day of the dark half of Bhádrapad sacred to Vishnu.
ANDHÁRIO: An order of ghosts.
ANGIRAS: Name of a sage.
ANJALI: Palmful.
ANJAN: Soot used as collyrium.
ANJANI: Mother of Máruti.
ÁNJANI: A sore or mole on the eye-lid.
ANKADA: Name of a poisonous plant.
ANNADEVA: The god presiding over food.
ANNAKUTA: The eighth or tenth day of the bright half of Ashvin or the second day of the bright half of Kártik when sweets are offered to gods.
ANNAPURNA: The goddess presiding over food.
ANTARAL: Name of a deity.
ANTARAPAT: The piece of cloth which is held between the bride and bridegroom at the time of a Hindu wedding.
ANTYESHTI: Funeral rites.
ANURÁDHA: Name of a constellation.
ANUSHTHÁN: Performance of certain ceremonies and works in propitiation of a god.
APASMÁR: Epilepsy.
APSARA: Certain female divinities who reside in the sky and are the wives of the Gandharvas. They are sometimes represented as the common women of the gods.
APTA: Name of a tree.
ARANI: Elaeodendron glaucum.
ARATI: The ceremony of waving (around an idol, a guru, etc.,) a platter containing a burning lamp.
ARDHODAYA: Half-risen state of a heavenly body.
ARDRA: Name of a constellation.
ARGHYA: A respectful offering to a god or a venerable person consisting of various ingredients or of water only.
ARJUNA: The third of the five Pándava brothers.
ARUNDHATI: Wife of Vasishtha; name of a star.
ASARA: A water nymph.
ASAN: A prayer carpet.
ASHÁDH: The fourth month of the Deccani Hindu and the ninth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
ASHÁPURI: Name of a goddess.
ASHLESHA: Name of a constellation.
ASHO: A corrupted form of Ashvin.
ASHAPATI: Name of a mythological king.
ASHTABHÁRO: An order of ghosts.
ASHTADALA: Eight-cornered.
ASHTA-DIK-PÁLA: Protectors of the eight different directions.
ASHTAKA: A hymn consisting of eight verses.
ASHTAMAHÁDÁN: A gift consisting of eight kinds of articles.
ASHTÁVASU: A class of divine beings eight in number.
ASHVIN: The seventh month of the Deccani Hindu and the twelfth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
ASHVINI: Name of a constellation.
ASHVINI KUMÁR: The twin sons of the sun by his wife Sanjnya in the form of a mare. They are famous as heavenly physicians.
ASHWAMEDHA: Horse sacrifice.
ASHWATTHÁMA: The only son of Drona, the military preceptor of the Kauravas and Pándavas.
ASMÁNI: An order of ghosts.
ASO: A corrupted form of Ashvin.
ASOPALAVA: Name of a tree.
ASUR GATI: The path of the demons.
ATIT: A class of religious beggars.
ATLAS: A kind of cloth.
ATRI: Name of a sage.
ATYÁPÁTYA: Name of an out-door game played in the Deccan.
AVAD-MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
AVAGAT: An order of ghosts.
AVAGATI: Fallen condition.
AVALIA: A Muhammadan saint.
AVALA: Name of a tree.
AVATÁR: An incarnation of Vishnu.
AVI: An order of ghosts.
AVLI: Name of a tree.
AWDUMBAR: A tree, Ficus glomerata.
AWUTA: Wood bill.
AYAN: Name of a tree.
B.
BÁBARO: An order of ghosts.
BÁBHUL: Acacia arabica.
BÁBRIO: See Bábaro.
BÁBRO: See Bábaro.
BABRUVÁHAN: Name of a demon; a son of Arjuna.
BÁBUL: Acacia arabica.
BÁDHA: Impending evil.
BÁGHADA: Name of an evil spirit.
BÁGULBÁWA: Name of a goblin.
BAHIRI: Name of a goddess.
BAHIRI-SOMJAI: Name of a goddess.
BAHIROBA: Name of a minor deity.
BAHIROBÁCHE BHUT: An order of ghosts.
BÁJA: Dish.
BÁJALE: A wooden cot.
BÁJAT: A wooden stool.
BAJÁNIA: A cast of tumblers or an individual of it.
BAKA: Name of a demon; name of a sage.
BÁKLA: A small round flat cake of dry boiled beans.
BÁKLÁN: See Bákla.
BAKOR: Noise.
BÁLÁ TERASH: The 13th day of the dark half of Bhádrapad.
BALADI: An order of ghosts.
BALDEV: Name of the brother of Krishna, the eighth incarnation of Vishnu.
BALEV: The full moon day of Shrávana.
BALEVA: See Balev.
BALEVIÁN: A kind of worship.
BALI: Name of a mighty demon, the lord of the nether world or pátál; an oblation; a victim offered to any deity; name of a procession.
BALIDÁN: Offering of a victim.
BALLA: An order of ghosts.
BÁNÁSUR: Name of a demon.
BANDHÁI-JAVAN: Name of a cattle disease.
BANIA: A trader.
BÁPA: Name of a guardian spirit of fields.
BÁPDEV: See Bápa.
BARANESHWAR MAHÁDEV: A name of Mahádev.
BÁRAS: The twelfth day of the bright or dark half of a month.
BÁRVATIA: An outlaw.
BATÁSA: A kind of sweetmeat.
BATRISA: A man possessed of thirty-two accomplishments.
BATUK: Name of a minor deity.
BÁU: A word used to frighten children; a goblin.
BÁVA: A term of respectful compellation or mention for an ascetic or religious teacher.
BÁVAL: See Bábul.
BÁVO: See Báva.
BAYA: Name of a deity presiding over small-pox.
BÁWAN VIR: Name of a minor deity.
BECHRA MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
BEDA: Name of a tree.
BEL: Aegle Marmelos.
BEL-BHANDÁR: Leaves of the Aegle Marmelos and the turmeric powder that are kept on an idol.
BER: Jujube tree.
BERO: Deaf.
BETHI: An order of ghosts.
BHÁBHO: Worthless.
BHÁDARWA: See Bhádrapad.
BHÁDRAPAD: The sixth month of the Deccani Hindu and the eleventh month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
BHAGAT: An exorcist.
BHAGIRATH: Name of an ancient king of the solar dynasty who is said to have brought down the Ganges from heaven to the earth.
BHÁGVAT: Name of one of the eighteen puránas.
BHAGVATI: Name of a goddess.
BHAGWÁN: An epithet of Vishnu; of Shiva.
BHAGWATI: See Bhagvati.
BHAIRAV: A name of an inferior manifestation of Shiva.
BHAJAN: Repeating the name of a god as an act of worship; hymns or pieces or verses sung to a god.
BHAKTIMÁRGA: Path of devotion.
BHÁLU: An old female jackal.
BHANDÁRI: A caste of Hindus.
BHÁNG: Hemp water.
BHANGI: A scavenger; name of the caste of scavengers.
BHANGRA: A kind of tree.
BHARANAI: Name of a goddess.
BHARANI: Name of a constellation.
BHÁRANI: The process of charming.
BHARATA: Name of a brother of Ráma the seventh incarnation of Vishnu.
BHARVÁD: A caste of shepherds.
BHÁSIKA: An order of ghosts.
BHASMA: Holy ashes.
BHASMÁSUR: Name of a demon.
BHÁUBIJ: The second day of the bright half of Kártik.
BHAVÁI: Name of a stone deity.
BHÁVAKÁI: Name of a goddess.
BHAVÁNI: A name of the goddess Párvati.
BHÁVIN: A caste of female temple servants who are prostitutes by profession.
BHAWÁNI: See Bhaváni.
BHENSA: A he-buffalo.
BHENSÁSUR: A demon in the form of a he-buffalo.
BHIKHÁRI: A beggar.
BHIKHO: A beggar.
BHIL: A partly Hindu, partly animistic tribe.
BHIMA: The second of the five Pándava brothers.
BHIMA-AGIÁRAS: The eleventh day of the bright half of Jyeshtha.
BHIMASENA: See Bhima.
BHIMNÁTH MAHÁDEV: A name of Shiva.
BHIMNÁTH SHANKAR: A name of Shiva.
BHISHMA: Son of Shántanu and the river Ganges and grand-uncle of the Pándavas and Kauravas.
BHOGAVA: Village boundary.
BHOI: A caste of fishermen and palanquin-bearers.
BHOJAPATRA: A palm-leaf.
BHOLÁNÁTH: A name of Shiva.
BHONG RINGDI: Name of a poisonous plant.
BHOPALA: Gourd.
BHOPI: The person that officiates in the temples of village deities.
BHUCHAR: An order of ghosts hovering over the earth.
BHUNGA: A black bee.
BHUSHUNDAKÁK: Name of a sage.
BHUT: An evil spirit.
BHUTA: See Bhut.
BHUTA-DEVATA: A ghostly godling.
BHUTÁLI: A woman who can influence evil spirits to do harm to others.
BHUTE: Plural of Bhutya: See Bhutya.
BHUTIN: A female member of an order of devotees of the goddess Bhaváni.
BHUTNÁTH: Name of an evil spirit.
BHUTYA: A male member of an order of devotees of the goddess Bhaváni.
BHUVA: A male exorcist.
BHUVI: A female exorcist.
BIBHISHANA: Brother of Rávana, the demon king of Lanka or Ceylon.
BIJ: The second day of the bright or dark half of a month.
BIJAVRIKSHANYÁYA: The maxim of seed and shoot. The maxim takes its origin from the mutual relation of causation that exists between seed and shoot, and is applied to cases in which two objects stand to each other in the relation of both cause and effect.
BILI: See Bel.
BINDU: A drop.
BOCHO: A coward.
BODAN: A ceremony in which curds, milk, boiled rice, fried cakes, etc., are mixed up together and presented in oblation to the goddess Mahálakshmi by a company of at least five married women and one virgin.
BODO: Bald-headed.
BOL CHOTH: The fourth day of the dark half of Shrávan.
BORÁDI: The Jujube tree.
BOTERUN: A complete cessation of rain for seventy-two days.
BOWÁJI: See Báva.
BOW: See Báu.
BRAHMA GRAHA: Ghost of a Bráhman.
BRAHMA: The first god of the Hindu Trinity.
BRAHMABHOJ: A feast to Bráhmans.
BRAHMACHARYA: Celibacy.
BRAHMACHÁRI: One who has taken a vow to lead a celibate life.
BRAHMAHATYA: The murder of a Bráhman.
BRÁHMAN: The sacerdotal caste of Hindus or an individual of it.
BRÁHMANA-VARUNA: The appointment of duly authorised Bráhmans to perform religious ceremonies.
BRAHMARANDHRA: The aperture supposed to be at the crown of the head, through which the soul takes its flight on death.
BRAHMA RÁKSHASA: See Brahma Sambandh.
BRAHMA SAMBANDH: The ghost of a Bráhman that in his life time possessed high attainments, and a haughty spirit.
BRIHASPATI: Name of the preceptor of the gods.
BRUHANNADA: The name assumed by Arjuna when residing at the palace of Viráta.
BUDHA: Mercury.
BUDDHI: Name of a wife of Ganpati.
C.
CENDUR: Red lead.
CHÁDA: Rent.
CHAITANNADYA: An order of ghosts.
CHAITRA: The first month of the Deccani Hindu and the sixth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
CHAKLI: A sparrow.
CHÁK PADANE: Appearance of red pustules on the face supposed to be caused by the influence of an evil eye.
CHAKORA: A bird, Bartavelle Partridge.
CHÁLA: Name of a deity.
CHÁLEGHAT: An order of ghosts.
CHAMÁR: A caste of tanners.
CHAMPA: Michelia champaca.
CHAMPÁ-SHASHTI: The sixth day of the bright half of Márgashirsha.
CHAMPÁVATI: Name of a goddess.
CHANA: Gram.
CHANDA: Name of a kind of wind.
CHAND CHANI: An order of ghosts.
CHANDAN: Sandal wood.
CHANDIKA: Name of a goddess.
CHANDI KAVACH: A hymn in honour of the goddess Chandi or Durga.
CHANDIPÁTH: Recitation of a hymn in honour of the goddess Chandi or Durga.
CHANDRA: The moon.
CHANDRAMANDAL: The disk of the moon; the lunar sphere.
CHÁNDRÁYAN VRAT: Name of a vow.
CHARAK: Excreta.
CHÁRAN: A caste of genealogists and bards.
CHARANÁMRIT: Water in which the feet of a spiritual guide have been washed.
CHARMARIA: Name of a snake deity.
CHARONTHI: A kind of flour.
CHASHA: The Blue jay.
CHAT: An image of darbha grass at Shráddha when the required Bráhman is not present.
CHATA SHRÁDDHA: A shráddha in which a chat represents a Bráhman.
CHÁTURMÁS: The period of four months commencing from the tenth day of the bright half of Ashádh and ending with the tenth day of the bright half of Kártik.
CHATURTHI: The fourth day of the bright or dark half of a month.
CHAURÁR: An order of ghosts.
CHEDA: Ghost of a person of the Kunbi or Shudra caste or an unmarried Mahár.
CHEDOBA: Name of a spirit deity.
CHELA: A disciple.
CHELAN: An oblation to a Máta or goddess.
CHETAK: A kind of black art.
CHETAKIN: A witch.
CHETUK: A spirit servant.
CHHAMACHHARI: Death anniversary.
CHHIPA: A caste of calico-printers.
CHHOGALA: Celebrated. Great.
CHHOGALO: With a tail.
CHILBIL: Notes of the Pingala bird.
CHILUM: A clay pipe.
CHINDHARO: Ragged.
CHIRANJIVA: Immortal.
CHITHI: A piece of paper on which mystic signs are drawn; an amulet.
CHITHARIA: Ragged.
CHITI: See Chithi.
CHITPÁVAN: A caste of Bráhmans also known as Konkanasth.
CHITRA: Name of a constellation.
CHOK: A square.
CHOLA: Dolichos Sinensio.
CHOLI: A bodice.
CHONGE: A kind of sweet.
CHORÁSI KÁNTINI: An order of ghosts.
CHORÁSI VIRU: An order of ghosts.
CHORAWA: A ceremony performed at the time of reaping.
CHOTH: The fourth day of the bright or dark half of a month.
CHUDBUDE JOSHI: A caste of fortune-tellers.
CHUDEL: An order of female ghosts.
CHUDELA: See Chudel.
CHUDI: A torch.
CHUDI PAURNIMA: The full-moon day of the month of Mágh.
CHUNADI: A kind of cloth worn by females.
CHUNTHO: Ragged.
CHUNVÁLIA KOLI: A tribe of Kolis.
CHURAMA: Sweet balls of wheat flour fried and soaked in ghi.
CHUTAKI: Snapping the thumb and finger.
D.
DÁDAMO: An order of ghosts.
DÁDAMOKHODIÁR: Name of a field deity.
DÁDH: A molar tooth.
DÁDH BÁNDHAVI: To deprive of the power of eating by a charm or spell.
DÁDO: An order of ghosts.
DÁKAN: A witch; an order of ghosts.
DÁKINI: See Dákan.
DÁKLA: A spirit instrument in the form of a small kettle-drum.
DAKSHA: A celebrated Prajápati born from the thumb of Brahma.
DAKSHA PRAJÁPATI: See Daksha.
DAKSHANA: A gift of money made to Bráhmans.
DÁL: Name of a sect of Hindus.
DALAP: A ceremony performed for the propitiation of the minor deities of the fields.
DÁLIA: Baked split gram.
DÁMANA: An amulet tied to the horns of a pet animal.
DAMPATYA: A married pair.
DÁNA: Corn seed.
DÁNDA: The bat at the game of trap-stick.
DÁNKLA: See Dákla.
DÁNKLA BESWÁN: The installation of a dánkla.
DÁNKLÁN: See Dákla.
DARBHA: A sacred grass; Cynodon Dactylon.
DARDURI: Name of a water nymph.
DARGA: A Muhammadan place of worship.
DARJI: A caste of tailors.
DASHA: Influence.
DARSHA SHRÁDDHA: A shráddha to the manes on every new moon day.
DASARA: The tenth day of the bright half of Kártik.
DASHARATHA: Son of Aja and father of Ráma.
DAS PINDA: The oblations collectively to the manes of a deceased ancestor which are offered daily from the first day of his decease until the tenth, or which are offered together on the tenth: also the rite.
DÁTAN: Wooden sticks for brushing the teeth.
DATTA: Name of a god.
DATTÁTRAYA: See Datta.
DÁV: An order of ghosts.
DEDAKO: A frog.
DEHARI MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
DELAVADI DEVI: Name of a goddess.
DENDO: The croaking of a frog.
DEOPAN: Ceremonies and observances in propitiation of a god.
DESHASTHA: A caste of Bráhmans found in the Deccan.
DEVA: A god.
DEVACHÁR: Spirit of a Shudra who dies after his marriage.
DEVAHUTI: Name of the mother of the sage Kapil.
DEVAK: A term for the deity or deities worshipped at marriages, thread investitures etc.; a totem.
DEVAKI: Mother of Krishna.
DEVAL: A temple.
DEVAL RIGHANE: Entering into the service of the temple.
DEVALI: The male offspring of a Bhávin.
DEVARSHI: A dealer with gods and devils: one that summons, exorcises them, etc.
DEVA SARPA: A snake belonging to a deity.
DEVASKI: The annual ceremonies in honour of the tutelar divinity of a village.
DEVA YOSHITA: A woman offered to a god.
DEV DIVÁLI: The eleventh day of the bright half of Kártik.
DEVI: A goddess.
DEVIPANTH: A sect of the worshippers of the goddess Durga.
DHÁGA: An amulet made of a piece of cloth.
DHAL-JATRA: A ceremony performed at the time of harvest.
DHAMA: A name of Hanumán.
DHANA: Coriander.
DHANANJAYA: Name of a snake.
DHANA-TRAYODASHI: The thirteenth day of the dark half of Ashvin.
DHANGAR: A caste of shepherds.
DHANISHTHA: Name of a constellation.
DHANU: Sagittarius.
DHANURMÁS: The period during which the sun is in Sagittarius.
DHANU-SANKRÁNT: Transit or passage of the sun through Sagittarius.
DHÁRÁVÁDI: A stream of milk.
DHARMARÁJA: The god of death.
DHARMASHÁLA: A rest house.
DHARMASHÁSTRA: The code of body of Hindu law.
DHARMASINDHU: Name of a work treating of Hindu law.
DHED: An impure caste of Hindus.
DHEDVÁDA: The ward or place occupied by the Dhed caste.
DHINGO: Fat.
DHOBI: A caste of washermen.
DHOL: A drum.
DHOLIO: An order of ghosts.
DHONDILGAJYA: Name of a rite performed for securing rainfall.
DHORI: White.
DHOTAR: Waist cloth.
DHUL PÁDAVO: The first day of the dark half of Fálgun.
DHRUVA: The son of Uttánapáda. He was a great devotee of the god Vishnu. The solar star.
DHULETI: See Dhul Pádavo.
DHULWAD: See Dhul Pádavo. The day of throwing dust after the burning of the Holi.
DHUNDA: Name of a demon goddess.
DHUNDA RÁKSHASIN: See Dhunda.
DHUNDHUMARI: Name of a mythological personage.
DHUNI: The smoke-fire of an ascetic over which he sits inhaling the smoke.
DHUPA: Frankincense.
DIGAMBARA: Name of a goddess.
DIPO: Panther.
DISHA-SHUL: Pain caused by directions.
DIVÁLI: A festival with nocturnal illuminations, feastings, gambling, etc. held during the concluding day of Ashvin and the first and second day of Kártik.
DIVÁSA: The fifteenth day of the dark half of Ashádh.
DIWAD: A serpent of a large but harmless species.
DODKA: One hundredth part of a rupee.
DOKADO: A ball of molasses and sesamum seed cooked together.
DORA: Piece of a string; a magic thread.
DORLI: Solanum indicum.
DRO: A kind of sacred grass.
DRONA: Son of Bháradvája, by birth a Bráhman but acquainted with military science which he received as a gift from Parashurám. He instructed the Kauravas and Pándavas in the use of arms.
DRUSTAMANI: A kind of black beads.
DUDHA: Milk.
DUDHPÁK: Rice cooked in milk and sweetened with sugar.
DUG-DUDIOON: See Dákla.
DUHITRA: Shráddha performed by a grandson to propitiate his maternal grandfather.
DUKÁL: Famine.
DUNDUBHI: A kettle-drum.
DUNGAR: A hill.
DURBÁR: The court of an Indian Chief.
DURGA: Name of a goddess.
DURGATI: Fallen condition.
DURVA: A kind of sacred grass.
DURYODHANA: The eldest of the Kaurava brothers.
DWIJA: A twice-born. A Bráhman, a Kshatriya or a Vaishya, whose investiture with the sacred thread constitutes, religiously and metaphorically a second birth.
DWITIYA: The second day of the bright or dark half of a month.
E.
EKÁDASHI: The eleventh day of the bright and dark halves of a month.
EKAL PER: Zizyphus jujuba.
EKÁNTARIO: Intermittent fever.
EKOTISHTA: The rites performed on the eleventh day after death.
ETALÁI: Name of a goddess.
F.
FÁG: A vulgar song.
FÁGAN: A corrupted form of Fálgun. See Fálgun.
FAKIR: A Muhammadan mendicant.
FAKIRI: Alms given to Fakirs in the Muharram.
FAKIRO: A beggar.
FÁLGUN: The twelfth month of the Deccani Hindu and the fifth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
FÁVADI: Name of a bird.
FIRANGÁI: Name of a goddess.
FUL: A flower.
FUL DOL: A festival in which coloured water is thrown.
G.
GADHEDA: A donkey.
GADHEDO: See Gadheda.
GADHERIMÁTA: Name of a goddess installed to protect a fortress or a street.
GAFAL: Stupid.
GAGANACHAR: An order of ghosts moving in the etherial regions.
GAGARBEDIUN: A piece of leather thong or a piece of black wood on which mystic spells have been cast.
GAJÁBÁI: Name of a goddess.
GAJACHHAYA: A festival—the day of the new moon of Bhádrapad the moon being in the Hasta constellation.
GANA: A troop of demigods considered as Shiva’s attendants.
GANAGOR: Name of a vow.
GANDHARVA: A celestial musician; a class of demigods who are considered to be the singers of gods.
GÁNDIVA: Name of the bow of Arjuna.
GÁNDU: Name of a tree.
GANDH: Sandal paste.
GANESH CHATURTHI: The fourth day of the bright half of Bhádrapad celebrated as the birthday of Ganesh.
GANESHIO: A hook-shaped instrument used by thieves in boring holes through walls.
GANGA: The river Ganges.
GANGÁJAL: Water of the Ganges.
GANGIGOR: Name of a vow.
GÁNGLO: Stony.
GÁNGUD: An order of ghosts.
GÁNJA: Hemp flower.
GANPATI: The son of Shiva and Párvati. He is the deity of wisdom and the remover of difficulties and obstacles.
GANPATIPUJAN: The worship of Ganpati.
GÁNTHIA: A preparation of gram flour.
GAON-DEVI: Village goddess.
GARABI: A song in propitiation of a goddess.
GARBHÁDÁN: The marriage consummation ceremony.
GÁRHÁNE: Supplication to an idol.
GARUD: The eagle.
GARUD PURÁN: Name of a purán.
GÁTRÁD: Name of a goddess.
GAU: A measure of distance equal to 1⅓ miles.
GAUTAM: Name of a sage.
GAVA: A wild ox.
GAVALI: A caste of herdsmen.
GAVATDEV: Name of a godling.
GAVATI: An order of ghosts.
GAYÁSUR: Name of a demon.
GÁYATRI: Name of a daughter of Brahma.
GÁYATRI MANTRA: A sacred verse from the Vedas held specially sacred and repeated by every Bráhman at his morning and evening devotion. The verse is in honour of the sun.
GÁYATRI PURASCHARAN: A form of devotion requiring the recitation of the Gáyatri mantra a hundred thousand times with certain symbolic ceremonies.
GÁYATRIPURASCHAVACHAN: See Gáyatripurascharan.
GEDI: A bat.
GEDI-DÁNDA: An outdoor game played by boys.
GERIA: A boy who takes an active part in the Holi festival.
GHÁDI: An exorcist. A caste of temple ministrants or an individual of it.
GHADI: A measure of time equal to twenty-four minutes.
GHADULO: A process for removing the effects of the evil eye.
GHÁNCHINI: An order of ghosts.
GHÁNDHARAVI: An order of ghosts.
GHÁNI: That quantity of oil seeds which is put in at one time to be crushed in an oil mill.
GHÁT: Steps on the side of a river or tank leading to the water.
GHATOTKACHA: Name of a demon.
GHELO: Mad.
GHELUN: Mad.
GHERÁYALA: Eclipsed.
GHETA: A sheep.
GHODO: A horse.
GHUGARI: Grain boiled whole, i.e., unsplit and unhusked.
GHUMAT: A sort of musical instrument—an earthen vessel, pitcher-form, covered over at the larger mouth with leather.
GHUNA: A mysterious watery pit.
GIDOTÁN: Name of a creeper.
GILLI-DÁNDA: A play amongst boys, trapstick.
GIRÁSIA: A Rajput landholder.
GIRHA: A water demon. Applied to Ráhu or to an eclipse in general, solar or lunar.
GIRI: An order or individual of it among Gosávis.
GOCHADI: Cattle or dog louse.
GODHO: A bull.
GOKARN: Name of a mythological king.
GOKHALO: A niche in the wall.
GOKUL: The name of the village at which Krishna was brought up.
GOKHARU: A species of thorns.
GOKUL-ASHTAMI: The eighth day of the dark half of Bhádrapad celebrated as the birthday of Krishna.
GOL: Molasses.
GOLÁBA: Name of a goddess.
GOLAMBÁDEVI: Name of a goddess.
GOMUKH: Mouth of a cow.
GONDARO: Place where the village cattle rest.
GONDHAL: A kind of religious dance.
GOOLVEL: A kind of creeper.
GOPÁLSANTÁN: Name of an incantation.
GOPRADÁN: Gift of a cow with its calf to a Bráhman.
GOR: A priest.
GORA: A black earthen vessel filled with curds.
GORADIA: A name of Hanumán.
GORÁIN: A married unwidowed woman.
GORAKHA: Name of a saint.
GORAKH CHINCH: A kind of tree.
GORJI: A preceptor.
GORAKHRÁJ: Name of a saint.
GOSÁVI: An ascetic.
GOTRA: A section of a caste having a common ancestor.
GOURI-PUJAN: The worship of the goddess Gouri, a festival observed only by women.
GOUTRAD: A vow in honour of the cow lasting from the eleventh day to the fifteenth day of the bright half of Bhádrapad.
GOUTRÁL: Name of a vow.
GOVARDHAN: A celebrated hill near Mathura. A large heap of cow dung or of rice, vegetables, etc. made on the first day of the bright half of Kártik in imitation of the mountain.
GOWALÁ-DEVA: Name of a deity connected with rain-fall.
GRAHA: A planet.
GRAHANA: An eclipse.
GRAHAN-PUJAN: The worship of the plough on the full-moon day of Shrávan.
GRAHA-SHÁNTI: A ceremony in propitiation of the planets.
GRÁMADEVATA: A village goddess.
GRÁMA-DEVI: A village goddess.
GRIHADEVATA: The deity which presides over the house.
GRISHMA-RITU: The summer.
GRIVA: Name of a deity.
GUDHI: A pole, wrapped around with a cloth, a mango sprig, etc., erected on the first day of the year before the house-door.
GUDHI-PÁDVA: The first day of the bright half of Chaitra, the new year’s day of the Deccani Hindus.
GUHYAK: An order of semi-divine beings.
GULÁB: A rose.
GUGAL: Balsamodendron.
GUJAKALPA: Name of a medicinal preparation.
GULÁL: Red powder.
GUMPHA: A cave.
GUNDAR: Gum arabic.
GURAV: A caste of temple ministrants or an individual of it.
GURU: A religious preceptor; Jupiter.
GURU CHARITRA: Name of a sacred book.
H.
HADAL: Ghost of a woman who dies within ten days of childbirth or during menses.
HADALI: See Hadal.
HÁJ: A pilgrim.
HAJÁM: A caste of barbers or an individual of it.
HALÁHAL: A sort of deadly poison produced at the churning of the ocean.
HANSA: A goose.
HANUMÁN: Name of a deity in the form of a monkey. He was a great devotee of Ráma.
HANUMÁN-JAYANTI: The full-moon-day of chaitra celebrated as the birthday of Hanumán.
HAR: A name of Shiva.
HARDA: A garland of balls made of sugar.
HARDÁS: One who performs Kathás that is relates stories of Hindu deities to the accompaniment of music.
HARDE: Myrobalan.
HARI: A name of Vishnu.
HARISCHANDRA: Name of a mythological king.
HARITÁLIKA: The third day of the bright half of Bhádrapad on which images of Párvati made of earth are worshipped by women.
HARIVANSHA: Name of a purán.
HASTA: Name of a constellation.
HATHADI: An order of ghosts.
HÁTHI: An elephant.
HAVAN: A sacrificial offering.
HEDAMATIO: A name of Hanumán.
HEDAMBA: Name of a giantess.
HEDLI: An order of ghosts.
HEMANT-RITU: Winter.
HIDIMBA: Name of a giantess.
HIJADA: A eunuch.
HINGLÁJ: Name of a goddess.
HIRANYAKASHIPU: Name of a demon.
HIRANYAKASHYAPU: Name of a demon.
HIRANYÁKSHA: Name of a demon.
HIRWA: An order of ghosts.
HOL: Name of a goddess.
HOLI: A festival held at the approach of the vernal equinox. The pile arranged to be kindled at the festival.
HOLIA: A boy who takes an active part in the Holi celebrations.
HOLIKA: Name of a goddess.
HOLO: A species of birds.
HOMA: A sacrifice.
HOMAHAVAN: A formation expressing comprehensively or collectively, the several acts and points appertaining to oblation by fire: also any one indefinely of these acts and points.
HOW: Name of a demon.
HUMBAD: A caste of Vániás or an individual of it.
HUTÁSHANI: The pile arranged to be kindled at the festival of Holi.
I.
INA: An egg.
INÁM: A gift.
INDA: An egg-shaped vessel.
INDRA-DHANUSHYA: A rain-bow.
INDRAJIT: Name of a demon.
INDRAMAHOTSAVA: A festival celebrated in honour of the god Indra.
IRALE: A protection against rain made of the leaves of trees.
ISHTADEVATA: A chosen deity.
ITIDIO: A species of insects.
J.
JÁDI: Fat.
JADO: Fastened.
JÁDU: The black art.
JÁGRAN: The fifteenth day of the bright half of Ashádh.
JÁGRITI: Wakefulness.
JAIKHA: An order of ghosts.
JÁKHÁI: Name of a minor goddess.
JAKHANI: An order of semi-divine beings.
JAKHÁI-DEVI: Name of a minor goddess.
JAKHARA: Name of a minor goddess.
JAKHARO: An order of ghosts.
JÁKHIN: Spirit of a woman whose husband is alive.
JAKHMÁTA: Name of a minor goddess.
JAKRIN: Name of a deity residing in water.
JÁL: An order of ghosts; name of a tree.
JALACHAR: An order of evil spirits living in water.
JALADEVI: Water-goddess.
JALAJ: An order of ghosts.
JALA-JATRA: The ceremony of submerging the image of Shiva.
JALANDHAR: Name of a demon.
JALAP: A dream caused by cold.
JALDEVKI: Water-goddess.
JALOTSAVA: A water festival.
JAMBUVANT: One of the generals of Rama’s army at the siege of Lanka or Ceylon.
JAMBUVANTI: The daughter of Jambuvant.
JAMI: An order of ghosts.
JÁN: An order of ghosts.
JANAK: A king of Mahila, the foster-father of Sita.
JÁNAWE: A sacred thread.
JANGAM: A Lingáyat priest.
JANHU: Name of a mythological king.
JANJIRO: A black cotton thread with seven knots.
JANMÁSHTAMI: The eighth day of the dark half of Shrávan celebrated as the birth-day of Krishna.
JANMA-SUWÁSINI: A woman who is perpetually unwidowed.
JANNI: Name of a minor goddess.
JANTRA: A mystical arrangement of words.
JAP: Repeating prayers in a muttering manner.
JAP-MÁL: A rosary.
JÁRAN: A kind of black art.
JARÁSANDH: Name of a demon.
JARI: Name of a goddess.
JARI-MARI: A goddess presiding over an epidemic or pestilential disease.
JATA: Matted hair.
JATRA: A fair.
JATUPI: Name of a sage.
JAVA: Barley.
JAVÁLA: Tender wheat plants.
JETHA: The eighth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
JHAPAT: A sudden encounter.
JHOLÁI: Name of a goddess.
JIMP: An order of ghosts.
JINNI: An order of ghosts.
JINO: Small.
JINTHRO: Rugged.
JIREN: Cumin-seed.
JIVADHANI: Name of a goddess.
JIVI: Live.
JIVO: Live.
JOGÁI: Name of a goddess.
JOGANI: A female harpie.
JOGATA: A male child offered to the goddess Yallamma.
JOGATIN: A female child offered to the goddess Yallamma.
JOGAVA: Begging in the name of the goddess Amba.
JOGI: A male child offered to the goddess Máyáka.
JOGIN: A female child offered to the goddess Máyáka.
JUÁRI: A kind of corn.
JULEBI: A kind of sweet.
JUTHI: False.
JUVÁRI: A kind of corn.
JYESHTHA: The third month of the Deccani Hindu and the eighth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year. Name of a constellation.
JYOTISH-SHÁSTRA: The science of astronomy.
K.
KABAR: A tomb raised over the grave of a Muhammadan saint.
KABIR: Name of a celebrated saint.
KACHA: The son of Brihaspati, the preceptor of gods.
KACHAKADA: A kind of bead.
KACHARO: Refuse.
KACHBI: Rainbow.
KÁCHHIA: A caste of vegetable sellers.
KADADAN: Legumes.
KADALIPUJAN: Plantain tree worship.
KADAMB: Anthocephalus cadamba.
KADVI: Bitter.
KADAVO: Bitter.
KADULIMB: Melia Azadirachta.
KÁFRI: An order of ghosts.
KÁGDO: A crow.
KÁGRÁSHIA: An expounder of the utterances of crows.
KÁGVA: Cooked food offered to the manes.
KAITABHA: Name of a demon.
KÁJAL: Collyrium.
KÁJRA: A kind of tree.
KAKADI: A cucumber.
KÁKBHUSHUNDI: Name of a sage.
KALASH: A jar.
KALASHI: A weight of corn.
KÁLANEMI: Name of a demon.
KALASIO: A bowl.
KÁLI: Name of a goddess.
KÁLIKA: Name of a goddess.
KÁLKÁICHE BHUT: An order of ghosts.
KÁLI CHAUDAS: The fourteenth day of the dark half of Ashvin.
KALINGI: Daughter of the king of the Kalingas.
KÁLI PARAJ: A name applied collectively to the aboriginal tribes of Gujarát.
KÁLIYA NÁG: Name of a mythological snake.
KÁLI YUGA: The fourth age of the world according to the Hindu scriptures.
KÁLO: Black.
KÁLO VA: Name of a cattle disease.
KALPAVRIKSHA: A fabulous tree granting all desires.
KÁL BHAIRAV: A name of Mahádev.
KÁL PURUSHA: The god of death.
KÁLUBÁI: Name of a minor goddess.
KALYÁN: Welfare.
KÁMA DHENU: A heavenly cow granting all desires.
KAMALA HOLI: The fourteenth day of the bright half of Fálgun.
KÁMAN: A kind of black art of bewitching a person.
KAMANDALU: A gourd.
KÁMDEV MAHÁDEV: A name of Mahádev.
KAMOD: A kind of rice.
KANAKNÁTH: A name of Mahádev.
KANKOTRI: Red powder.
KÁNOBA: Name of a minor deity.
KANSA: King of Mathura, maternal uncle of Krishna.
KANSÁR: Coarse wheat flour cooked in water or ghi and sweetened with molasses or sugar.
KANYA: A girl; Virgo.
KAPHAN: The cloth in which a corpse is wrapped.
KAPIL: Name of a sage.
KAPILÁSHASTHI: A day on which synchronize six particulars—the day, Tuesday; the month, Bhádrapad; the date, the sixth of the dark fortnight; the Nakshatra, Rohini; the Yog, Vyatipát; the Mahánakshatra, Hasti.
KAPILASHETE: See Kapiláshasthi.
KARAN: A kind of tree.
KARHÁDA: A caste of Bráhmans found in the Deccan.
KARKATA: Name of a water nymph.
KARKATI: See Karkata.
KARKOTAK: Name of a snake.
KARMAMÁRGA: The path of action.
KÁRTIK: The eighth month of the Deccani Hindu and the first month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
KÁRTIKEY: Son of Shiva, the commander of the army of the gods.
KÁSADA: A kind of sacred grass.
KASÁI: A butcher.
KASATIA: Name of a god.
KASATIA-GÁNTH: Tying the knot of Kasatia, a vow observed in the name of the god Kasatia.
KÁSHI: Benares.
KÁTHAWATI: Name of a tribe.
KATHEKARI: A narrator of the legends of the gods.
KÁTHI: Name of a tribe.
KÁTKARI: Name of a tribe.
KÁTLÁN: A kind of medicinal preparation.
KATYÁR: A dagger.
KAUL: The rice, betelnuts, etc., stuck upon an idol when it is consulted.
KAUL GHÁLNE: To consult a deity by kaul.
KAURAVA: The patronymic of the descendants of Kuru, but usually applied to the sons of Dhritaráshtra.
KAUSTUBHA: Name of a celebrated gem obtained at the churning of the ocean and worn by Vishnu.
KAVANESHWAR: A name of Mahádev.
KÁYA: Body.
KEDÁR: Name of a deity.
KERÁDO: A kind of tree.
KESHAR: Saffron.
KESHAVA: A name of Krishna.
KETU: In astronomy, the ninth of the planets; in mythology, a demon.
KHABITH: An order of ghosts.
KHAD-KHADYA-BESÁDVI: A ceremony performed by exorcists to propitiate their favourite goddesses.
KHADI: Red or green earth.
KHAGACHAR: An order of ghosts roaming in the sky.
KHAIR: Acacia catechu.
KHAIS: A species of water spirits.
KHAJÁDA PANTH: A sect of Hindus.
KHÁKHARA: A kind of tree.
KHÁKHI: A sect of Hindus.
KHAL: The passage in the Shivalinga (phallus of Shiva).
KHANA: A bodice cloth.
KHÁNDE PUJAN: Worship of arms.
KHANDERÁI: A name of the deity Khandoba.
KHANDOBA: Name of a deity.
KHANJIR: A dagger.
KHÁPARI: A kind of cattle disease.
KHÁPRYA: An order of ghosts.
KHÁRAVA: A disease of cattle in which the hoofs are affected.
KHÁRVA: A caste of fishermen and sailors or an individual of it.
KHÁRVI: See Khárva.
KHATRI: A caste of weavers.
KHAVÁS: A caste of Hindus.
KHAVIS: An order of ghosts.
KHETALO: Name of a snake deity.
KHETRVA: A field.
KHEM: An order of ghosts.
KHICHADI: A preparation of rice and pulse cooked together.
KHIJADIO: The Shami tree, Prosopis spicigera.
KHIJADO: See Khijadio.
KHIJADO MÁMO: An order of ghosts.
KHILI: A peg.
KHIR: Rice cooked in milk and sweetened with sugar.
KHIT KHIT: Notes of the Pingla bird.
KHODIÁR MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
KHODO: Lame.
KHODO MÁMO: Name of a minor deity.
KHOJA: A class of Musalmáns.
KHOKHO: An outdoor game played in the Deccan.
KHUNTINI: An order of ghosts.
KIDI: An ant.
KILBIL: Notes of the Pingla bird.
KINKHÁB: Silk worked with gold and silver flowers, brocade.
KINNARI: An order of semi-divine beings.
KIRÁTA: A fisherman.
KISHORDÁS: A name of Hanumán.
KODRA: Punctured millet.
KOHALA: Pumpkin.
KOKÁI: Name of a goddess.
KOKIL: A cuckoo.
KOKILA VRATA: The festival of cuckoos which is held in the month of Ashádh after a lapse of twenty years.
KOLAMBÁI: Name of a goddess.
KOLHÁI: Name of a goddess.
KOLI: A primitive tribe of Hindus common in the Bombay Presidency.
KOLO: A jackal.
KOLKÁI: Name of a goddess.
KOLU: Cucurbita maxima.
KONDI: A kind of earthen pot.
KONDURI: A preparation of mutton.
KORI: A new garment; an unused earthen jar; a small silver coin.
KOTHALI: Reticule.
KOTWÁL: Name of an untouchable caste of Hindus.
KOYATA: A wood bill.
KRISHNA: The eighth incarnation of Vishnu.
KRITIKA: Name of a constellation.
KRIYA BHAUDÁI: Name of a deity.
KSHATRIYA: The warrior class, the second of the fourfold divisions of Manu.
KSHETRA: A holy place.
KSHETRAPÁL: The guardian spirit of fields; a kind of stone.
KUBER: The lord of wealth, the regent of the north and the king of the Yakshas and Kinnaras.
KUKAD VEL: A kind of creeper.
KUL: A totem; a clan.
KULA-DEVATA: Family deity.
KULADHARMA: A special worship of the family god or goddess of each family.
KULATHI: A kind of corn.
KULERA: A mixture of wheat, oat or rice flour, clarified butter and sugar or molasses.
KULKARNI: A village accountant.
KUMBHA: Aquarius.
KUMBHAKARN: Name of a demon.
KUMBHÁR: A caste of potters.
KUMBHÁRAN: A woman of the Kumbhár caste.
KUMBHAVA: Name of a cattle disease.
KUMBHAVIVÁHA: Marriage with an earthen jar.
KUNBI: A cultivator.
KUND: A pond; a pit; a sacred pool.
KUNDALAN: A kind of magic circle.
KUNDALI: An astrological diagram of the position of planets at any particular time.
KUNDALIA: A name of Hanumán.
KUNDI: A shoe-maker’s earthen pot.
KUNKU: Red powder.
KUNTI: The first wife of Pandu.
KUPOTSARGA: Digging a well for the benefit of the public—and abandoning one’s right of ownership over it.
KURANANDI: Wheat flour lumps used in the ceremony of the Bodan.
KURI: An implement for sowing corn.
KURMI: Name of a water nymph.
KURUKSHETRA: The extensive plain near Delhi, the scene of the great battle between the Kauravas and Pándavas.
KUSHMÁND: An order of demi-gods.
KUSUMBA: The dye prepared from the dried flowers of the Kusumba (Carthamus tinctorius).
KUTRO: A dog.