ANTYESHTI: Funeral rites.
ANURÁDHA: Name of a constellation.
ANUSHTHÁN: Performance of certain ceremonies and works in propitiation of a god.
APASMÁR: Epilepsy.
APSARA: Certain female divinities who reside in the sky and are the wives of the Gandharvas. They are sometimes represented as the common women of the gods.
APTA: Name of a tree.
ARANI: Elaeodendron glaucum.
ARATI: The ceremony of waving (around an idol, a guru, etc.,) a platter containing a burning lamp.
ARDHODAYA: Half-risen state of a heavenly body.
ARDRA: Name of a constellation.