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GADHEDA: A donkey.
GADHEDO: See Gadheda.
GADHERIMÁTA: Name of a goddess installed to protect a fortress or a street.
GAFAL: Stupid.
GAGANACHAR: An order of ghosts moving in the etherial regions.
GAGARBEDIUN: A piece of leather thong or a piece of black wood on which mystic spells have been cast.
GAJÁBÁI: Name of a goddess.
GAJACHHAYA: A festival—the day of the new moon of Bhádrapad the moon being in the Hasta constellation.
GANA: A troop of demigods considered as Shiva’s attendants.
GANAGOR: Name of a vow.
GANDHARVA: A celestial musician; a class of demigods who are considered to be the singers of gods.
GÁNDIVA: Name of the bow of Arjuna.
GÁNDU: Name of a tree.
GANDH: Sandal paste.
GANESH CHATURTHI: The fourth day of the bright half of Bhádrapad celebrated as the birthday of Ganesh.
GANESHIO: A hook-shaped instrument used by thieves in boring holes through walls.
GANGA: The river Ganges.
GANGÁJAL: Water of the Ganges.
GANGIGOR: Name of a vow.
GÁNGLO: Stony.
GÁNGUD: An order of ghosts.
GÁNJA: Hemp flower.
GANPATI: The son of Shiva and Párvati. He is the deity of wisdom and the remover of difficulties and obstacles.
GANPATIPUJAN: The worship of Ganpati.
GÁNTHIA: A preparation of gram flour.
GAON-DEVI: Village goddess.
GARABI: A song in propitiation of a goddess.
GARBHÁDÁN: The marriage consummation ceremony.
GÁRHÁNE: Supplication to an idol.
GARUD: The eagle.
GARUD PURÁN: Name of a purán.
GÁTRÁD: Name of a goddess.
GAU: A measure of distance equal to 1⅓ miles.
GAUTAM: Name of a sage.
GAVA: A wild ox.
GAVALI: A caste of herdsmen.
GAVATDEV: Name of a godling.
GAVATI: An order of ghosts.
GAYÁSUR: Name of a demon.
GÁYATRI: Name of a daughter of Brahma.
GÁYATRI MANTRA: A sacred verse from the Vedas held specially sacred and repeated by every Bráhman at his morning and evening devotion. The verse is in honour of the sun.
GÁYATRI PURASCHARAN: A form of devotion requiring the recitation of the Gáyatri mantra a hundred thousand times with certain symbolic ceremonies.
GÁYATRIPURASCHAVACHAN: See Gáyatripurascharan.
GEDI: A bat.
GEDI-DÁNDA: An outdoor game played by boys.
GERIA: A boy who takes an active part in the Holi festival.
GHÁDI: An exorcist. A caste of temple ministrants or an individual of it.
GHADI: A measure of time equal to twenty-four minutes.
GHADULO: A process for removing the effects of the evil eye.
GHÁNCHINI: An order of ghosts.
GHÁNDHARAVI: An order of ghosts.
GHÁNI: That quantity of oil seeds which is put in at one time to be crushed in an oil mill.
GHÁT: Steps on the side of a river or tank leading to the water.
GHATOTKACHA: Name of a demon.
GHELO: Mad.
GHELUN: Mad.
GHERÁYALA: Eclipsed.
GHETA: A sheep.
GHODO: A horse.
GHUGARI: Grain boiled whole, i.e., unsplit and unhusked.
GHUMAT: A sort of musical instrument—an earthen vessel, pitcher-form, covered over at the larger mouth with leather.
GHUNA: A mysterious watery pit.
GIDOTÁN: Name of a creeper.
GILLI-DÁNDA: A play amongst boys, trapstick.
GIRÁSIA: A Rajput landholder.
GIRHA: A water demon. Applied to Ráhu or to an eclipse in general, solar or lunar.
GIRI: An order or individual of it among Gosávis.
GOCHADI: Cattle or dog louse.
GODHO: A bull.
GOKARN: Name of a mythological king.
GOKHALO: A niche in the wall.
GOKUL: The name of the village at which Krishna was brought up.
GOKHARU: A species of thorns.
GOKUL-ASHTAMI: The eighth day of the dark half of Bhádrapad celebrated as the birthday of Krishna.
GOL: Molasses.
GOLÁBA: Name of a goddess.
GOLAMBÁDEVI: Name of a goddess.
GOMUKH: Mouth of a cow.
GONDARO: Place where the village cattle rest.
GONDHAL: A kind of religious dance.
GOOLVEL: A kind of creeper.
GOPÁLSANTÁN: Name of an incantation.
GOPRADÁN: Gift of a cow with its calf to a Bráhman.
GOR: A priest.
GORA: A black earthen vessel filled with curds.
GORADIA: A name of Hanumán.
GORÁIN: A married unwidowed woman.
GORAKHA: Name of a saint.
GORAKH CHINCH: A kind of tree.
GORJI: A preceptor.
GORAKHRÁJ: Name of a saint.
GOSÁVI: An ascetic.
GOTRA: A section of a caste having a common ancestor.
GOURI-PUJAN: The worship of the goddess Gouri, a festival observed only by women.
GOUTRAD: A vow in honour of the cow lasting from the eleventh day to the fifteenth day of the bright half of Bhádrapad.
GOUTRÁL: Name of a vow.
GOVARDHAN: A celebrated hill near Mathura. A large heap of cow dung or of rice, vegetables, etc. made on the first day of the bright half of Kártik in imitation of the mountain.
GOWALÁ-DEVA: Name of a deity connected with rain-fall.
GRAHA: A planet.
GRAHANA: An eclipse.
GRAHAN-PUJAN: The worship of the plough on the full-moon day of Shrávan.
GRAHA-SHÁNTI: A ceremony in propitiation of the planets.
GRÁMADEVATA: A village goddess.
GRÁMA-DEVI: A village goddess.
GRIHADEVATA: The deity which presides over the house.
GRISHMA-RITU: The summer.
GRIVA: Name of a deity.
GUDHI: A pole, wrapped around with a cloth, a mango sprig, etc., erected on the first day of the year before the house-door.
GUDHI-PÁDVA: The first day of the bright half of Chaitra, the new year’s day of the Deccani Hindus.
GUHYAK: An order of semi-divine beings.
GULÁB: A rose.
GUGAL: Balsamodendron.
GUJAKALPA: Name of a medicinal preparation.
GULÁL: Red powder.
GUMPHA: A cave.
GUNDAR: Gum arabic.
GURAV: A caste of temple ministrants or an individual of it.
GURU: A religious preceptor; Jupiter.
GURU CHARITRA: Name of a sacred book.