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BÁBARO: An order of ghosts.
BÁBHUL: Acacia arabica.
BÁBRIO: See Bábaro.
BÁBRO: See Bábaro.
BABRUVÁHAN: Name of a demon; a son of Arjuna.
BÁBUL: Acacia arabica.
BÁDHA: Impending evil.
BÁGHADA: Name of an evil spirit.
BÁGULBÁWA: Name of a goblin.
BAHIRI: Name of a goddess.
BAHIRI-SOMJAI: Name of a goddess.
BAHIROBA: Name of a minor deity.
BAHIROBÁCHE BHUT: An order of ghosts.
BÁJA: Dish.
BÁJALE: A wooden cot.
BÁJAT: A wooden stool.
BAJÁNIA: A cast of tumblers or an individual of it.
BAKA: Name of a demon; name of a sage.
BÁKLA: A small round flat cake of dry boiled beans.
BÁKLÁN: See Bákla.
BAKOR: Noise.
BÁLÁ TERASH: The 13th day of the dark half of Bhádrapad.
BALADI: An order of ghosts.
BALDEV: Name of the brother of Krishna, the eighth incarnation of Vishnu.
BALEV: The full moon day of Shrávana.
BALEVA: See Balev.
BALEVIÁN: A kind of worship.
BALI: Name of a mighty demon, the lord of the nether world or pátál; an oblation; a victim offered to any deity; name of a procession.
BALIDÁN: Offering of a victim.
BALLA: An order of ghosts.
BÁNÁSUR: Name of a demon.
BANDHÁI-JAVAN: Name of a cattle disease.
BANIA: A trader.
BÁPA: Name of a guardian spirit of fields.
BÁPDEV: See Bápa.
BARANESHWAR MAHÁDEV: A name of Mahádev.
BÁRAS: The twelfth day of the bright or dark half of a month.
BÁRVATIA: An outlaw.
BATÁSA: A kind of sweetmeat.
BATRISA: A man possessed of thirty-two accomplishments.
BATUK: Name of a minor deity.
BÁU: A word used to frighten children; a goblin.
BÁVA: A term of respectful compellation or mention for an ascetic or religious teacher.
BÁVAL: See Bábul.
BÁVO: See Báva.
BAYA: Name of a deity presiding over small-pox.
BÁWAN VIR: Name of a minor deity.
BECHRA MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
BEDA: Name of a tree.
BEL: Aegle Marmelos.
BEL-BHANDÁR: Leaves of the Aegle Marmelos and the turmeric powder that are kept on an idol.
BER: Jujube tree.
BERO: Deaf.
BETHI: An order of ghosts.
BHÁBHO: Worthless.
BHÁDARWA: See Bhádrapad.
BHÁDRAPAD: The sixth month of the Deccani Hindu and the eleventh month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
BHAGAT: An exorcist.
BHAGIRATH: Name of an ancient king of the solar dynasty who is said to have brought down the Ganges from heaven to the earth.
BHÁGVAT: Name of one of the eighteen puránas.
BHAGVATI: Name of a goddess.
BHAGWÁN: An epithet of Vishnu; of Shiva.
BHAGWATI: See Bhagvati.
BHAIRAV: A name of an inferior manifestation of Shiva.
BHAJAN: Repeating the name of a god as an act of worship; hymns or pieces or verses sung to a god.
BHAKTIMÁRGA: Path of devotion.
BHÁLU: An old female jackal.
BHANDÁRI: A caste of Hindus.
BHÁNG: Hemp water.
BHANGI: A scavenger; name of the caste of scavengers.
BHANGRA: A kind of tree.
BHARANAI: Name of a goddess.
BHARANI: Name of a constellation.
BHÁRANI: The process of charming.
BHARATA: Name of a brother of Ráma the seventh incarnation of Vishnu.
BHARVÁD: A caste of shepherds.
BHÁSIKA: An order of ghosts.
BHASMA: Holy ashes.
BHASMÁSUR: Name of a demon.
BHÁUBIJ: The second day of the bright half of Kártik.
BHAVÁI: Name of a stone deity.
BHÁVAKÁI: Name of a goddess.
BHAVÁNI: A name of the goddess Párvati.
BHÁVIN: A caste of female temple servants who are prostitutes by profession.
BHAWÁNI: See Bhaváni.
BHENSA: A he-buffalo.
BHENSÁSUR: A demon in the form of a he-buffalo.
BHIKHÁRI: A beggar.
BHIKHO: A beggar.
BHIL: A partly Hindu, partly animistic tribe.
BHIMA: The second of the five Pándava brothers.
BHIMA-AGIÁRAS: The eleventh day of the bright half of Jyeshtha.
BHIMASENA: See Bhima.
BHIMNÁTH MAHÁDEV: A name of Shiva.
BHIMNÁTH SHANKAR: A name of Shiva.
BHISHMA: Son of Shántanu and the river Ganges and grand-uncle of the Pándavas and Kauravas.
BHOGAVA: Village boundary.
BHOI: A caste of fishermen and palanquin-bearers.
BHOJAPATRA: A palm-leaf.
BHOLÁNÁTH: A name of Shiva.
BHONG RINGDI: Name of a poisonous plant.
BHOPALA: Gourd.
BHOPI: The person that officiates in the temples of village deities.
BHUCHAR: An order of ghosts hovering over the earth.
BHUNGA: A black bee.
BHUSHUNDAKÁK: Name of a sage.
BHUT: An evil spirit.
BHUTA: See Bhut.
BHUTA-DEVATA: A ghostly godling.
BHUTÁLI: A woman who can influence evil spirits to do harm to others.
BHUTE: Plural of Bhutya: See Bhutya.
BHUTIN: A female member of an order of devotees of the goddess Bhaváni.
BHUTNÁTH: Name of an evil spirit.
BHUTYA: A male member of an order of devotees of the goddess Bhaváni.
BHUVA: A male exorcist.
BHUVI: A female exorcist.
BIBHISHANA: Brother of Rávana, the demon king of Lanka or Ceylon.
BIJ: The second day of the bright or dark half of a month.
BIJAVRIKSHANYÁYA: The maxim of seed and shoot. The maxim takes its origin from the mutual relation of causation that exists between seed and shoot, and is applied to cases in which two objects stand to each other in the relation of both cause and effect.
BILI: See Bel.
BINDU: A drop.
BOCHO: A coward.
BODAN: A ceremony in which curds, milk, boiled rice, fried cakes, etc., are mixed up together and presented in oblation to the goddess Mahálakshmi by a company of at least five married women and one virgin.
BODO: Bald-headed.
BOL CHOTH: The fourth day of the dark half of Shrávan.
BORÁDI: The Jujube tree.
BOTERUN: A complete cessation of rain for seventy-two days.
BOWÁJI: See Báva.
BOW: See Báu.
BRAHMA GRAHA: Ghost of a Bráhman.
BRAHMA: The first god of the Hindu Trinity.
BRAHMABHOJ: A feast to Bráhmans.
BRAHMACHARYA: Celibacy.
BRAHMACHÁRI: One who has taken a vow to lead a celibate life.
BRAHMAHATYA: The murder of a Bráhman.
BRÁHMAN: The sacerdotal caste of Hindus or an individual of it.
BRÁHMANA-VARUNA: The appointment of duly authorised Bráhmans to perform religious ceremonies.
BRAHMARANDHRA: The aperture supposed to be at the crown of the head, through which the soul takes its flight on death.
BRAHMA RÁKSHASA: See Brahma Sambandh.
BRAHMA SAMBANDH: The ghost of a Bráhman that in his life time possessed high attainments, and a haughty spirit.
BRIHASPATI: Name of the preceptor of the gods.
BRUHANNADA: The name assumed by Arjuna when residing at the palace of Viráta.
BUDHA: Mercury.
BUDDHI: Name of a wife of Ganpati.