a thin curtain used by women to cover their face (from strangers, that is in practice among Muslims and some Hindus); purdah.

= ಕೋಶ - 2 & 15.

a case for the blade of a knife, sword, etc.; a sheath.

the oval or round body laid by a female bird, fish, reptile, insect, etc., containing the germ of a new individual along with food for its development, and having an enclosing shell or membrane; an egg.

either of two oval sex glands in the male that are suspended in the scrotum and secrete spermatozoa; the testicle.

the silky or fibrous case which the larvae of certain insects spin about themselves for shelter during the pupa stage; a cocoon.

a treasury - a) the funds or revenues as of a state; b) a place where public or private funds are kept, received, disbursed, and recorded.

gold or silver, in any form (held in the state treasury); a treasure.

a dry fruit or seed vessel developed from a single carpel enclosing one or more seeds and usu. splitting along two sutures at maturity, as a legume; a pod.

a hard outer covering, as of a turtle, mollusc, insect, etc.; the shell.

the pericarp in a lotus flower.

a container or box, capable of being locked and usu. of metal, in which to store valuables.

a store-house for grain.

an immature knoblike shoot from which a flower develops; a flower or leaf that is not fully open.

the external female genitals, esp. the external opening of the vagina; the vulva.

the male organ of copulation and (in mammals) urination; the penis.

a book containing words in a language, with definitions, (with or without etymologies, pronunciations, and other information); a dictionary; the special vocabulary of a particular author, field of study, etc. a lexicon.

(law) a kind of ordeal in which the accused and acuser were made to drink the holy water with which the idol of a deity was washed, which, it was believed, would fatally harm the person if he or she were not innocent.

(phil.) any of the five layers forming the gross, subtle and causal bodies in the complex structure of the human personality.

the hard, aromatic seed of the tree Myristica fragrans of the nutmeg family, which is grated and used as a spice, its outer covers as the spice mace; nutmeg.

the stone of a fruit (as mango).

a ball; a globe.

a dwelling place; a house.

a cloud.

a thin curtain used by women to cover their face (from strangers, in practice among some Hindus and Muslims); purdah.

a loud sound - as indistinct noise, tumult, confused cries of a multitude, battle-cry, cries of victory, cries of woe or distress, roar of animals, etc.

the act of announcing, proclaiming; proclamation.

that which is announced, proclaimed.

a village inhabited mainly by cowherds.

the creeper Luffa acutangula ( = Cucumis acutangula) of Cucurbitaceae family.

its gourd; ribbed gourd.

any of the soft consonants as the third, fourth or fifth ones in each classified group of consonants or any of the ಯ, ರ, ಲ ಹ consonants.

a holy city in Uttar Pradesh, in North India, on the Gangā river.

(fig.) a place that is very important, sacred to a particularsect or group of people.

shining with light that is radiated or reflected; bright; brilliant.

clearly seen.

a narrow strip of leather or cloth for fastening clothing, etc.; a string.

a lash attached to a stick for urging on animals or punishing etc.; a whip.

= ಕಾಶಿ3.

brightness; radiance; brilliance; lustre.

the grass Saccharum spontaneum of Poaceae family.

the grass Sorghum nitidum (= Andropogon serratus) of Poaceae family.

a flower of this grass.