to emit or reflect light; to be radiant or bright with light; to gleam; to glow; to shine.

to look or be beautiful.

to give back an image of; to mirror or reproduce the image of an object; to reflect.

to roll oneself from side to side.

to become unstable, inconsistant.

to be evasive; to be equivocal.

to turn away from one's path; to deviate.

to move or rush forward.

to come to be seen; to appear.

to be seen or realised for an instant like a flash of light; to flash.

brightness; brilliance; splendour.

a natural stream of water of fairly large size, flowing in a definite course, emptying into an ocean, lake or another river; a river.

a path, way; a road.

(only as the first word in a compound) old.

a fruit of any plant, whether edible or not.

a long, hand-held, sharp-edged, pointed weapon, used for cutting, thrusting, etc. by soldiers; a sword.

the sharp blade of a sword.

greediness; covetousness; avariciousness.

(hist.) a unit of weight (equal to three tolas).

a unit of time, equal to twenty four seconds.

(hist.) a unit of capacity.

the flesh of animals used as food; meant.

any of several grasses.

the creeper Trichosanthes cucumerina of Cucurbitaceae family.

its gourd.

a solemn declaration, made in the name of a god, that one would do or refrain from doing something or pledge oneself to something; a vow.

the part of the face between the eyebrows and the line where the hair normally begins; the forehead.

the share of a plough; a ploughshare.

= ಪಾಳು.

to scold, rebuke or chide severely.

to drive out (a dog).

to prove oneself better than or superior to (another or others); to excel.