(rightly ಜ್ಯೋತಿ)1. light of comfortable intensity that helps living beings see the outside objects.

a waving of small lamps before an idol or person.

the light of fact and knowledge; revelation of truth; knowledge itself which frees from ignorance.

(fig.) a person, a god or anything that guides to the truth.

brought into life or being; born.

he who is born.

that which is born, produced, brought into being.

any animal being.

a boy or man in relation to his father or mother; a male offspring.

the act, fact or an instance of (something, someone) coming into life or being; birth.

a large number of persons gathered, came together; a crowd.

a man of noble birth.

= ಜತನ.

a large number of people proceeding in a procession in an organised manner.

excluding (some or a few).

great in amount, degree or number.

in great number, degree or amount.

a man leading ascetic life in an attempt to find the philosophic truth behind the universe; an ascetic.

(mus.) a short break at a particular place in the course of singing or playing a musical composition; a pause.

a harmonious and rhythmical musical composition, chiefly made of musical notes, used in dance.

(pros.) a break or suspension, as a caesura, in a line of verse; a pause.

a medicinal plant .