(mus.) in Karnāṭaka system, a mode derived from the main mode Naṭhabhairavi.

a muslim religious teacher.

a particular variety of tāḷa (time scale in music).

a kind of drum, percussion instrument.

to chop off the nose; to dissgrace by cutting the nose of a person.

the act of chopping of the nose or of disgracing by cutting the nose.

name of a clan that was considered socially low or lowest.

a person belonging to this clan.

a monk or religious mendicant.

a container made of interwoven bamboo splits, strips of wood, cane, etc., usu. without a handle; a basket.

a basin-like container made of bamboo splits used for fetching water from a water body into a channel.

a small flat-roofed, temporary structure, raised on four pillars having no walls on any side, which is gaily decorated, for keeping an idol.

the small-sized tree Xeromphis spinosa ( = Gardenia floribunda, Randia dumetorum) of Rubiaceae family.