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VÁCCHADO: The spirit supposed to cure hydrophobia.
VÁCCHARO: See Vácchado.
VACHO: Even.
VAD: The banyan tree; the dark half of a month.
VADÁN: Fried cakes.
VADHÁVO: Odd.
VADYÁJÁI: Name of a goddess.
VAGÁDNAR: One who beats musical instruments like drums.
VAGGAYA: Name of a deity.
VÁGH: A tiger.
VÁGHÁMBARI: Name of a goddess.
VÁGHARAN: A woman of the Vághri caste.
VÁGHESHWARI MÁTA: Name of a goddess.
VÁGHRI: A caste of Hindus.
VÁGHUR DEVI: Name of a goddess.
VÁGHVIR: The spirit of a person killed by a tiger.
VÁGHYA: A male child offered to the god Khandoba.
VAIRÁGI: A recluse.
VAISHÁKHA: The second month of the Deccani Hindu and the seventh month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year.
VAISHNAVA: The sect of Hindus devoted to Vishnu.
VAISHVADEV: An oblation of boiled rice into the fire.
VAISHYA: A trader, the third of the four-fold divisions of Manu.
VAITÁL: An order of demi-gods.
VAITÁLIKA: An attendant of the god Shiva.
VAIVASWAT MANU: Name of the seventh Manu now reigning.
VAJRA: Adamant.
VAJRÁBÁI: Name of a goddess.
VAJRABATTU: A kind of bead.
VAJRAMAYA: Adamantine.
VAJRESHWARI: Name of a goddess.
VAJRESWARI: See Vajreshvari.
VALAM: A mock bridegroom in the Holi festival.
VALAMA VALAMI: A procession of a mock marriage in the Holi festival.
VALAMI: A mock bride in the Holi festival.
VÁLAND: A caste of barbers or an individual of it.
VALGO SAMACHARI: Death anniversary.
VALLABHÁCHÁRYA: A great saint and scholar who founded a sect of Vaishnavism.
VALO: A kind of cattle disease.
VALU: Eccentric.
VÁMA-MÁRGI: A follower of the Váma-márga that is a mode of worship in which the idol is worshipped by the left hand, liquor drunk, etc., etc.
VÁMAN: A dwarf; name of the fifth incarnation of Vishnu.
VANA-SHASTHI: Name of a Holiday.
VÁNZIÁPANA: Barrenness.
VARADANI: Name of a goddess.
VARADHAN: Name of a deity.
VARÁH: A boar.
VARÁHA-SANHITA: Name of a book.
VARSHÁ-RITU: The rainy season.
VÁRUL: The white ant-hill.
VÁSANA: Desire.
VASANTAPANCHAMI: The fifth day of the bright half of Mágh.
VASANT-RITU: The spring.
VÁSH: An oblation of rice and sweets offered to crows.
VASHIKARAN: A branch of black magic.
VASHISHTHA: Name of a sage.
VÁSTU: A religious rite performed on entering a new house.
VÁSTDEVATA: The guardian spirit of dwelling places.
VÁSTUN: See Vástu.
VÁSTUPUJAN: See Vástu.
VASU: A bull-calf or bull branded and set at liberty.
VASUBÁRAS: The twelfth day of the bright half of Ashvin.
VASUDEVA: Name of the father of Krishna.
VASU-DWÁDASI: See Vasubáras.
VÁSUKI: Name of a snake.
VÁSTU SHÁNTI: See Vástu.
VATA-SÁVITRI VRAT: Name of a vow observed by women on the full moon day of Jyeshtha.
VÁTI: A small metal cup.
VÁTKI: See Váti.
VÁV: A reservoir of water; a tank.
VÁYALI: Eccentric.
VÁYU: Wind; the deity presiding over the wind.
VÁYUSUTA: A name of Máruti.
VEDA: Name of the scriptures of the Hindus.
VEDATRAYI: The three vedas, Rik, Yajus and Sáma.
VEDHA: Malign influence.
VEDIC: Relating to the Vedas; as enjoined in the Vedas.
VEHALA: A tree, Beleric Myrobalan.
VELAN: A stick.
VELO: A creeper.
VETÁL: The lord of ghosts; name of a village deity.
VETRASARPA: A cane stick with an image of a snake at its end.
VIDÁ-SUPÁRI: Betel nut and leaves.
VIDYUT: Lightning.
VAJAYÁDASHAMI: The tenth day of the bright half of Ashvin.
VIJLI: Lightning.
VIKRAM: Name of a king.
VIMÁN: A celestial car.
VINÁYAK-CHATURTHI: The fourth day of the bright half of every month.
VINCHI: A female scorpion.
VIR: A male fiend; ghost of an unmarried Kshatriya.
VIRA: An order of ghosts; name of a village deity.
VISHA: Poison.
VISHÁKHA: Name of a constellation
VISHESHA PUJA: Special worship.
VISHI: A cycle of twenty years.
VISHNU: The second god of the Hindu Trinity.
VISHNUSAHASRANÁMA: A book containing the thousand names of Vishnu.
VISHNUYÁGA: A sacrifice in honour of Vishnu.
VISHOTAK: Name of a disease.
VISHVÁMITRA: Name of a sage.
VISHWARUPA: That exists in all forms, an epithet of Vishnu.
VISHWESHWAR: A name of Shiva.
VISWÁTI: An order of ghosts.
VITHOBA: Name of a god.
VISUCHIKA: Name of a cholera goddess.
VIVÁNCHARA: An order of ghosts.
VRAT: A vow.
VRIKODARA: Wolf-bellied, an epithet of Bhima.
VRINDA: Name of the wife of Jalendhar, a demon.
VRISCHIKA: Scorpion.
VRISHABHA: Taurus.
VRITRASÁR: Name of a demon.
VRUNDA: See Vrinda.
VYATIPÁT: The seventeenth of the Astrological Yoga (the twenty-seventh part of a circle measured on the plane of the Ecliptic).