absolute darkness; complete absence of light; pitch-darkness.

any flaw, defect or shortcoming; a blemish.

a series of clouds.

a green or greenish-blue poisonous compound, a basic acetate of copper, formed while food is being cooked in copper vessels.

the most formidable, wrathful form of Mother-Goddess Pārvati, representing the destructive aspect of mother-nature.

the black collyrium.

the act or process of learning.

acquaintance with facts; knowledge.

great ability or proficiency; expertness that comes from training, practice, etc.

the quality of mechanically repeating whatever is taught without understanding fully.

(dial.) the skill in deception; craftiness.

a small swelling or projection on a plant, from which a flower develops; a flower-bud.

small flame at the end of a burning wick of a lamp.

a fruit in its very early stage.

a young leave or bunch of young leaves.

a particular kind of prose.

the system of growing different crops every year, instead of the same in a field.

the resultant thing of mixing; something mixed; a combination; a mixture of heterogenous things without any chemical reaction taking place between the components.

a thick liquid in which relatively large number of small insoluble particles are in suspension and remain for long without getting settled to the bottom; gel; sol; emulsion.

the breaking of a divine or moral law, either by a conscious or unconscious act; a religious flaw; a sin.

dirt; filth; soil; defilement.

undisollved particles settled to the bottom of a liquid; dreg; lees.

a waxlike yellowish substance exuded by the ears; earwax; cerumen.

a false statement made deliberately; a lie.

a high opinion of oneself, often unduly exaggerated; pride; arrogance.

a small, congenital, dark spot, on the human skin; a mole.

a large, reddish brown, glandular organ in vertebrates, located in the upper abdominal cavity and functioning in the secretion of bile and in essential metabolic processes; the liver.

= ಘಲ್‍ಘಲ್.

any of the small staffs or rods fixed on side beams on either sides of a bullock cart, to which a frame of bamboos is fixed.

a particular manner of playing musical instruments.