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DÁDAMO: An order of ghosts.
DÁDAMOKHODIÁR: Name of a field deity.
DÁDH: A molar tooth.
DÁDH BÁNDHAVI: To deprive of the power of eating by a charm or spell.
DÁDO: An order of ghosts.
DÁKAN: A witch; an order of ghosts.
DÁKINI: See Dákan.
DÁKLA: A spirit instrument in the form of a small kettle-drum.
DAKSHA: A celebrated Prajápati born from the thumb of Brahma.
DAKSHA PRAJÁPATI: See Daksha.
DAKSHANA: A gift of money made to Bráhmans.
DÁL: Name of a sect of Hindus.
DALAP: A ceremony performed for the propitiation of the minor deities of the fields.
DÁLIA: Baked split gram.
DÁMANA: An amulet tied to the horns of a pet animal.
DAMPATYA: A married pair.
DÁNA: Corn seed.
DÁNDA: The bat at the game of trap-stick.
DÁNKLA: See Dákla.
DÁNKLA BESWÁN: The installation of a dánkla.
DÁNKLÁN: See Dákla.
DARBHA: A sacred grass; Cynodon Dactylon.
DARDURI: Name of a water nymph.
DARGA: A Muhammadan place of worship.
DARJI: A caste of tailors.
DASHA: Influence.
DARSHA SHRÁDDHA: A shráddha to the manes on every new moon day.
DASARA: The tenth day of the bright half of Kártik.
DASHARATHA: Son of Aja and father of Ráma.
DAS PINDA: The oblations collectively to the manes of a deceased ancestor which are offered daily from the first day of his decease until the tenth, or which are offered together on the tenth: also the rite.
DÁTAN: Wooden sticks for brushing the teeth.
DATTA: Name of a god.
DATTÁTRAYA: See Datta.
DÁV: An order of ghosts.
DEDAKO: A frog.
DEHARI MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
DELAVADI DEVI: Name of a goddess.
DENDO: The croaking of a frog.
DEOPAN: Ceremonies and observances in propitiation of a god.
DESHASTHA: A caste of Bráhmans found in the Deccan.
DEVA: A god.
DEVACHÁR: Spirit of a Shudra who dies after his marriage.
DEVAHUTI: Name of the mother of the sage Kapil.
DEVAK: A term for the deity or deities worshipped at marriages, thread investitures etc.; a totem.
DEVAKI: Mother of Krishna.
DEVAL: A temple.
DEVAL RIGHANE: Entering into the service of the temple.
DEVALI: The male offspring of a Bhávin.
DEVARSHI: A dealer with gods and devils: one that summons, exorcises them, etc.
DEVA SARPA: A snake belonging to a deity.
DEVASKI: The annual ceremonies in honour of the tutelar divinity of a village.
DEVA YOSHITA: A woman offered to a god.
DEV DIVÁLI: The eleventh day of the bright half of Kártik.
DEVI: A goddess.
DEVIPANTH: A sect of the worshippers of the goddess Durga.
DHÁGA: An amulet made of a piece of cloth.
DHAL-JATRA: A ceremony performed at the time of harvest.
DHAMA: A name of Hanumán.
DHANA: Coriander.
DHANANJAYA: Name of a snake.
DHANA-TRAYODASHI: The thirteenth day of the dark half of Ashvin.
DHANGAR: A caste of shepherds.
DHANISHTHA: Name of a constellation.
DHANU: Sagittarius.
DHANURMÁS: The period during which the sun is in Sagittarius.
DHANU-SANKRÁNT: Transit or passage of the sun through Sagittarius.
DHÁRÁVÁDI: A stream of milk.
DHARMARÁJA: The god of death.
DHARMASHÁLA: A rest house.
DHARMASHÁSTRA: The code of body of Hindu law.
DHARMASINDHU: Name of a work treating of Hindu law.
DHED: An impure caste of Hindus.
DHEDVÁDA: The ward or place occupied by the Dhed caste.
DHINGO: Fat.
DHOBI: A caste of washermen.
DHOL: A drum.
DHOLIO: An order of ghosts.
DHONDILGAJYA: Name of a rite performed for securing rainfall.
DHORI: White.
DHOTAR: Waist cloth.
DHUL PÁDAVO: The first day of the dark half of Fálgun.
DHRUVA: The son of Uttánapáda. He was a great devotee of the god Vishnu. The solar star.
DHULETI: See Dhul Pádavo.
DHULWAD: See Dhul Pádavo. The day of throwing dust after the burning of the Holi.
DHUNDA: Name of a demon goddess.
DHUNDA RÁKSHASIN: See Dhunda.
DHUNDHUMARI: Name of a mythological personage.
DHUNI: The smoke-fire of an ascetic over which he sits inhaling the smoke.
DHUPA: Frankincense.
DIGAMBARA: Name of a goddess.
DIPO: Panther.
DISHA-SHUL: Pain caused by directions.
DIVÁLI: A festival with nocturnal illuminations, feastings, gambling, etc. held during the concluding day of Ashvin and the first and second day of Kártik.
DIVÁSA: The fifteenth day of the dark half of Ashádh.
DIWAD: A serpent of a large but harmless species.
DODKA: One hundredth part of a rupee.
DOKADO: A ball of molasses and sesamum seed cooked together.
DORA: Piece of a string; a magic thread.
DORLI: Solanum indicum.
DRO: A kind of sacred grass.
DRONA: Son of Bháradvája, by birth a Bráhman but acquainted with military science which he received as a gift from Parashurám. He instructed the Kauravas and Pándavas in the use of arms.
DRUSTAMANI: A kind of black beads.
DUDHA: Milk.
DUDHPÁK: Rice cooked in milk and sweetened with sugar.
DUG-DUDIOON: See Dákla.
DUHITRA: Shráddha performed by a grandson to propitiate his maternal grandfather.
DUKÁL: Famine.
DUNDUBHI: A kettle-drum.
DUNGAR: A hill.
DURBÁR: The court of an Indian Chief.
DURGA: Name of a goddess.
DURGATI: Fallen condition.
DURVA: A kind of sacred grass.
DURYODHANA: The eldest of the Kaurava brothers.
DWIJA: A twice-born. A Bráhman, a Kshatriya or a Vaishya, whose investiture with the sacred thread constitutes, religiously and metaphorically a second birth.
DWITIYA: The second day of the bright or dark half of a month.