a vessel or a hallow place in the ground for preserving sacrificial fire or a hollow in the ground for ordinary house-hold fire.

the Bull, a constellation coinciding with its sign in the Zodiac; the Taurus.

(myth.) the first of the three sections, which consists of the first two of the six mystic circles in the human body - ಮೂಲಾಧಾರ and ಸ್ವಾಧಿಷ್ಠಾನ.