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MACHCHENDRA NÁTH: Name of a saint.
MACHHI: Name of a water nymph.
MÁCHHO: Name of a goddess.
MACHHU: See Máchho.
MADALIUN: A hollow bracelet.
MADAN: Cupid.
MADHAVI: A village headman.
MADHU: Name of a demon.
MADHU PAVANTI: An order of ghosts.
MADHWÁCHÁRYA: Name of a great saint who founded a sect of Vaishnavism.
MAFAT: Useless.
MAFATIO: Useless.
MAG: A grain, Phaseolus mungo.
MÁGH: The eleventh month of the Deccani Hindu and the fourth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
MAGHA: Name of a constellation.
MAGHALO: A lamp of mud covered with leaves to represent the god of rain.
MAHÁBHÁRAT: Name of an epic of the Hindus.
MAHÁDEVA: A name of Shiva.
MAHA GIRA: Name of a minor deity.
MAHÁKÁLI: Name of a goddess.
MAHÁKÁLI NIRVÁN TANTRA: Name of a work on Tantric philosophy.
MAHÁLAKSHMI: Name of a goddess; Name of a ceremony in which the goddess is worshipped on the eighth day of the bright half of Ashvin.
MAHÁLAYA SHRÁDDHA: A shráddha performed in the dark half of Bhádrapad in propitiation of ancestors.
MAHÁMÁRI: Cholera goddess.
MAHANT: A saint.
MAHÁPURUSH: An order of civil spirits.
MAHÁR: An unclean caste of Hindus.
MAHÁR PURUSHA: A kind of stone.
MAHÁRÁJA: A term of respectful compellation applied to kings, religious heads, saints, etc.
MAHÁRÁKSHASA: A class of demons.
MAHÁRUDRA: A sacrifice in honour of Shiva.
MAHÁRAURAVA: A kind of hell.
MAHÁSHIVARÁTRI: The fourteenth day of the dark half of Mágh, a fast day in honour of Shiva.
MAHÁTMA: A saint.
MAHÁTMYA: Greatness.
MAHESHA: A name of Shiva.
MAHESHVAR: A name of Shiva.
MAHI: Name of a demon.
MAHIKÁWATI: Name of a goddess.
MAHODAYA: Name of a festival.
MAIDAN: A plain.
MAKARA: Capricornus.
MAKARI: Name of a water nymph.
MAKHAR: A gaily dressed up wooden frame.
MAKI: Maize.
MÁLÁR: A musical mode.
MALHÁRI: A name of Kandoba.
MALI: Red lead.
MÁLI: A caste of gardeners or an individual of it.
MALINDA: A sweet preparation of wheat flour fried in ghi.
MALIN: Unclean.
MALLÁRI: A name of Khandoba.
MÁLO: A bower.
MAMIKULA: An order of ghosts.
MÁMO: An order of ghosts; a maternal uncle.
MANAYA: Name of a deity.
MANDAL: A group.
MANDALU: A circle.
MANDAN MISHRA: Name of an ancient scholar.
MANDAP: A bower.
MÁNDA BHARANE: Filling in a magic circle as a protection from spirits.
MÁNEK-STAMBHA: The auspicious post of the marriage bower.
MÁNG: An unclean caste of the Hindus.
MÁNGÁI: Name of a goddess.
MANGAL: Mars.
MANGALÁ-GOURI: A ceremony performed by married girls for five successive years on every Tuesday of the month of Shrávan.
MANGALÁRATI: Moving a lighted lamp round an idol.
MANGALSUTRA: The lucky thread worn by married women.
MANI: A jewel; name of a deity.
MANIDHAR: A snake.
MANI MALLA: Name of a demon.
MÁNKARI: The person entitled to certain honours and presents at village assemblies.
MANKODA: A black ant.
MÁNSA KHAVANTI: An order of ghosts.
MANTRA: An incantation; a magic spell.
MANTRA-SHÁSTRA: The science of incantations.
MANTRI: An exorcist.
MÁNTRIK: An exorcist.
MANUSHYACHAR: An order of ghosts moving among men.
MÁRAN: A branch of black magic.
MÁRGA: A path; course.
MARGÁI: Name of a goddess.
MÁRGASHIRSHA: The ninth month of the Deccani Hindu and the second month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
MARGI: A sect of Hindus.
MARGI PANTHI: A follower of the Margi sect.
MARI: Name of a goddess.
MARICHI: Name of a sage.
MARIYUN: A ceremony for driving away insects.
MARVO: Marjoram.
MASUR: Lentil.
MASIDA: An order of ghosts.
MÁTA: A goddess.
MÁTÁJI: See Máta.
MÁTA ASHTAMI: The eighth day of the navarátra.
MÁTARI: Name of a goddess.
MÁTHBHÁJI: A kind of green vegetable.
MÁTI: Earth.
MÁTRIKA: A mother; an order of semi-divine beings.
MÁULI: Name of a goddess.
MAUNYA VRATA: A vow of silence.
MÁVADI: Ghost of a woman dying with certain desires unfulfilled.
MÁYA: Illusion.
MÁYÁKA: Name of a goddess.
MEDA: Marrow.
MEDINI: The earth.
MEGH: A cloud.
MEGHARÁJA: The god of rains.
MEGHLADDU: A sweet ball of wheat flour fried in ghi.
MEHULO: See Maghalo.
MEKAIL: Name of an angel.
MELADI: An order of ghosts.
MELDI: See Meladi.
MELI VIDYA: Sacrilegious art.
MENA: A kind of bird.
MERU: Name of a mythological mountain.
MESHA: Aries.
MHÁLSA: Name of a goddess.
MHÁRJÁI: Name of a goddess.
MHARLOBA: Name of a deity.
MHASHYA: A species of water spirits.
MHASOBA: Name of a village deity; lord of ghosts.
MIANA: A class of Musalmáns.
MINA: Pisces.
MINDHAL: A kind of fruit.
MIRI: Particle.
MITHUN: Gemini.
MIYALI: An order of ghosts.
MOBHARA: A hollow stone used for threshing corn.
MOCHI: A caste of shoe-makers.
MOCHINI: An order of ghosts.
MOGRI: Rat-tailed raddish.
MOHAN: A branch of black magic.
MOHINI: A fascinating woman.
MOHARO: The stone found in the head of the snake.
MOHOR: See Moharo.
MOKSHA: Salvation.
MOLANI: An order of ghosts.
MOTÁKAT: Name of a vow.
MOR: A peacock.
MORIA: An earthen bowl.
MOT MÁVALI: Mother Mary.
MOTUDUKH: A kind of cattle disease.
MOVA KHARAVA: Name of a cattle disease.
MRIG: A deer; name of a constellation.
MRIGÁNKA: The moon.
MRIGA TONCHANA: The moon.
MRITYUNJAYA: Name of an incantation.
MUCHKUND: Name of a sage.
MUJÁVAR: A sweeper of a mosque devoutly or piously fixed to it.
MUKTI: Salvation.
MUL: Name of a star.
MULO: Raddish.
MUNDA: A kind of wind.
MUNGESHWAR MAHÁDEV: A name of Shiva.
MUNGI MÁTA: Name of a goddess; dumb mother.
MUNJA: Spirit of Bráhman boy who dies immediately after his thread ceremony.
MURALI: A flute.
MURDUNGA: Tabour.
MURLI: See Murali.
MUSAL: A rice pounder.
MUTH: The fist.
MUTH MÁRANE: Throwing of a handful of rice over which incantations have been repeated; sending a bewitched lemon to a person to whom a disease is to be transferred or who is to be killed.
MUVA-KESHIBI: A kind of cattle disease.