the chief of a village.

a caste the main occupation of the members of which is agriculture and farming.

a member of that caste.

name of a region including the present Bengal and northern part of Orissa in Eastern India.

(rhet.) a literary style that is fraught with long and intertwined words, showy and artificially rhetoric sentences.

of the home; domestic; homely.

having or living in, a house of one's own.

living without depending on another.

the part at, toward or near either of the extremities of anything; tip; end.

a flat, coarse fabric made of straw used as a floor covering or to sit on; a straw mat.

the outskirts of a city or town.

a time; period of time; a season.

the hip and loins; the hollow above the hips.

the fleshy side of a person or animal between the ribs and the hip; the flank.

the dead body of a person; corpse.

a place for the burial or cremation of the dead bodies; a cemetry; a crematory.

a portable framework on which a corpse is carried.

a long, broad, thick wooden board; a plank.

a plant lasting or living only one year or one season.

The grass Saccharum sara (= S. munja) of Poaceae family.

plentifulness; bountifulness; excessiveness; abundance.

either of the flat surfaces alongside the forehead, in front of each ear of an elephant; the temples.

either of the two bones or bony parts that hold the teeth and frame the mouth in most vertebrates; the jaw.

a pointed straight missile to be shot from a bow; an arrow.

a social convention carried on by tradition and any violation of which is disapproved by the social system; a custom.

the fine, dust-like mass of grains that are produced in the anthers or microspore sacs of seed plants, containing the male sexual cells (gametophytes) of the plant; pollen.

a man belonging to brāhmaṇa caste.

the auditory sensation produced by vibrations in air, water, etc.; sound.

something lent, esp. a sum of money to be returned; a loan; the thing or money loaned.

ಕಡ ಹುಟ್ಟಿ ಬಡವ ಕೆಟ್ಟ kaḍa huṭṭi baḍava keṭṭa hewho goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing; ಕಡ ಸಿಕ್ಕುವುದಾದರೆ, ಹಡಗೇ ನನಗಿರಲಿ kaḍa sikkuvudādare, haḍagē nanagirali borrowing tempts one to be always acquisitive.

a shallow place in a stream, river, etc., where one can cross; a ford; a place or route of carriage over water; the place where a ferry docks on either shore; a ferry.

a largedeer (Cervus unicolor) with coarse hair, a short, erectile mane, and three-pointed antlers; an Indian sambar.

a stretch of rising land at the edge of a body of water, esp. a river.

a basin at the bottom of a tree or a levelled wet agricultural land with raised mound on all sides, for holding water.