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ABIL: A kind of incense.
ABIR: White scented powder.
ADÁCHH: Red cotton yarn.
ADÁD: Lentils.
ADAGHO BADAGHO: A ceremony performed to drive away insects.
ADHÁSUR: Name of a demon.
ADHIKAMÁS: Intercalary month.
ADI-NÁRÁYAN: A name of Vishnu.
ADO: Useless.
ADULSA: Name of a medicinal plant.
AGÁR: Excreta.
AGASTYA: Name of a sage; name of a constellation.
AGATHI: A tree, Sesbania Grandiflora.
AGATHIO: See Agathi.
AGHÁDA: Name of a plant.
AGHORI: A sect of Hindus.
AGIÁRI: Fire temple of the Pársis.
AGNI: Fire; the deity presiding over fire.
AGNICHAR: An order of evil spirits living in fire.
AGNIHOTRA: A perpetual sacred fire preserved in a hole in the ground for receiving and preserving consecrated fire.
AGNIHOTRI: One who keeps an Agnihotra.
AGNIKUNDA: A hole in the ground, or an enclosed space, on the surface, or a metal square-mouthed vessel, for receiving and preserving consecrated fire.
AGNI-SANSKÁR: The rite of setting fire to a corpse.
AGRI: Name of a caste or an individual of it.
AHALYA: The wife of the sage Gautam.
AHEVA NAVAMI: The ninth day of the dark half of Bhádrapad.
AHI: Name of a demon.
AHIR: A caste of shepherds.
AHUTI: A handful of rice, ghi, sesamum, etc., cast into fire, water, upon the ground etc., as an offering to the deities.
AIRÁVAT: Name of the elephant of Indra; the elephant presiding over the east.
AJA: A goat.
AJAMO: Lingusticum ajwaen.
AKÁSH: The sky.
AKÁSH-GANGA: The milky way.
AKHAND SAUBHÁGYA: Perpetual unwidowhood.
AKIK: A kind of stone.
AKHÁ TRIJ: The third day of the bright half of Vaishákh.
AKSHAYA TRITIYA: See Akhá Trij.
ALAWÁNA: A sort of shawl.
ALWANT: A spirit of a woman dying in childbirth or during menses.
ALU: An esculent vegetable.
AMANI: A kind of tree.
AMAR: Immortal.
AMATHO: Useless.
AMATHO MÁMO: An order of ghosts.
AMÁVÁSYA: The last day of a month.
AMBA: Name of a goddess.
AMBIL: Conjee.
AMBO: Mango.
AMNÁYESHWAR: A name of the god Mahádev.
ANAGH: Name of a vow.
ANAGODHA: See Anagh.
ANANT CHATURDASHI: The fourteenth day of the dark half of Bhádrapad sacred to Vishnu.
ANDHÁRIO: An order of ghosts.
ANGIRAS: Name of a sage.
ANJALI: Palmful.
ANJAN: Soot used as collyrium.
ANJANI: Mother of Máruti.
ÁNJANI: A sore or mole on the eye-lid.
ANKADA: Name of a poisonous plant.
ANNADEVA: The god presiding over food.
ANNAKUTA: The eighth or tenth day of the bright half of Ashvin or the second day of the bright half of Kártik when sweets are offered to gods.
ANNAPURNA: The goddess presiding over food.
ANTARAL: Name of a deity.
ANTARAPAT: The piece of cloth which is held between the bride and bridegroom at the time of a Hindu wedding.
ANTYESHTI: Funeral rites.
ANURÁDHA: Name of a constellation.
ANUSHTHÁN: Performance of certain ceremonies and works in propitiation of a god.
APASMÁR: Epilepsy.
APSARA: Certain female divinities who reside in the sky and are the wives of the Gandharvas. They are sometimes represented as the common women of the gods.
APTA: Name of a tree.
ARANI: Elaeodendron glaucum.
ARATI: The ceremony of waving (around an idol, a guru, etc.,) a platter containing a burning lamp.
ARDHODAYA: Half-risen state of a heavenly body.
ARDRA: Name of a constellation.
ARGHYA: A respectful offering to a god or a venerable person consisting of various ingredients or of water only.
ARJUNA: The third of the five Pándava brothers.
ARUNDHATI: Wife of Vasishtha; name of a star.
ASARA: A water nymph.
ASAN: A prayer carpet.
ASHÁDH: The fourth month of the Deccani Hindu and the ninth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
ASHÁPURI: Name of a goddess.
ASHLESHA: Name of a constellation.
ASHO: A corrupted form of Ashvin.
ASHAPATI: Name of a mythological king.
ASHTABHÁRO: An order of ghosts.
ASHTADALA: Eight-cornered.
ASHTA-DIK-PÁLA: Protectors of the eight different directions.
ASHTAKA: A hymn consisting of eight verses.
ASHTAMAHÁDÁN: A gift consisting of eight kinds of articles.
ASHTÁVASU: A class of divine beings eight in number.
ASHVIN: The seventh month of the Deccani Hindu and the twelfth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
ASHVINI: Name of a constellation.
ASHVINI KUMÁR: The twin sons of the sun by his wife Sanjnya in the form of a mare. They are famous as heavenly physicians.
ASHWAMEDHA: Horse sacrifice.
ASHWATTHÁMA: The only son of Drona, the military preceptor of the Kauravas and Pándavas.
ASMÁNI: An order of ghosts.
ASO: A corrupted form of Ashvin.
ASOPALAVA: Name of a tree.
ASUR GATI: The path of the demons.
ATIT: A class of religious beggars.
ATLAS: A kind of cloth.
ATRI: Name of a sage.
ATYÁPÁTYA: Name of an out-door game played in the Deccan.
AVAD-MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
AVAGAT: An order of ghosts.
AVAGATI: Fallen condition.
AVALIA: A Muhammadan saint.
AVALA: Name of a tree.
AVATÁR: An incarnation of Vishnu.
AVI: An order of ghosts.
AVLI: Name of a tree.
AWDUMBAR: A tree, Ficus glomerata.
AWUTA: Wood bill.
AYAN: Name of a tree.