(p. 73) arakṣaṇa not keeping or maintaining or guarding or protecting or defending. অরক্ষণীয় a. not fit to be kept or maintained or guarded or protected or defended. অরক্ষণীয়া a. fem. of অরক্ষণীয় । a. & n. a Hindu girl who is too old to have her marriage deferred any longer; an unmarried girl who has just reached her puberty. 37)

(p. 69) abhraka talc; mica; the sky. 19)

(p. 41) apanēẏa removable, effaceable; eliminable; revocable. 79)

(p. 63) abhinandana felicitation, congratulation; expression of happiness by eulogy; felicitous eulogy; a welcome. অভিনন্দন জানানো v. to felicitate, to congratulate; to welcome. ̃পত্র n. a letter of congratulatory or welcome address, an address. 72)

(p. 41) anyāẏa impropriety; injustice; an unjust act; a wrong; a misdeed; an unreasonable act. a. unjust; improper; unreasonable (অন্যায় অনুরোধ); wrongful. অন্যায় করা v. to do injustice; to act improperly or unjustly or unreasonably or wrongfully; to do a wrong. ̃ত adv. improperly; injustly; unreasonably; wrongfully. অন্যায়াচরণ n. an unjust or improper or unreasonable or wrongful act; a wrong; a wrong-doing. অন্যায়াচারী a. acting unjustly or improperly or unreasonably or wrongfully. n. a wrong-doer. অন্যায়োপজীবী a. & n. one who lives by unfair means or wrong-doing. 29)

(p. 26) anāsanna not near or approaching; not imminent or impending. 84)

(p. 71) amāniśā the night of the new moon. 6)

(p. 69) amani like that, such (অমনি রূপ); causeless, unwarranted (অমনি কাঁদে). adv. like that, such, so; without cause, unwarrantedly, for nothing; without employment, vacantly; empty-handed(ly); without covering; without accompaniment, condiment, support etc.; without price or payment, gratis; without effort; instantly, at once, just. অমনি অমনি adv. without cause; without guilt or offence; for nothing. অমনি একরকম fairly good or well, middling, so so. 28)

(p. 38) antḥ denoting; the heart, depth, within, inside, etc. 27)

(p. 85) asannidhāna distance; absence of proximity or nearness. 53)

(p. 83) aṣṭa eight. ̃ক n. any collection of eight, an octave; a book containing eight chapters; a verse containing eight couplets. a. eight. ̃আশি see অষ্টাশি । ̃কোণ n. (geom.) an octagon. a. octagonal ̃কোণী a. octagonal. ̃গুণ a. multiplied by eight, eightfold. n. eight times. ̃চত্বারিংশ a. forty-eighth. ̃চত্বারিংশত্ n. & a. forty-eight. ˜চত্বারিংশত্তম a. forty-eighth. fem. ̃চত্বারিংশত্তমী । ̃দিকপাল n. the eight guardian deities of the eight points of the earth. ̃ধা adv. & a. eight times; eightfold; in eight ways. ̃ধাতু n. the eight metals; gold, silver, copper, bronze, bell-metal, zinc, lead and iron. ̃নবতি n. & a. ninety-eight. ˜নবতিতম a. ninety-eighth. fem. ̃নবতিতমী । ̃নাগ n. (myth.) the eight chief snakes. ̃নায়িকা n. the eight minor goddesses; the eight manifestations of Goddess Durga (দুর্গা); (lit.) eight moods of the heroine or the sweetheart (namely, going to assignation, expecting her lover to come to her bed-chamber, worried owing to sudden absence of her lover, deceived by her lover, stricken with anger and jealousy on observing on the person of her lover signs indicating that he had been to another woman, feeling miserable for having quarrelled with and sent back her lover, enjoying domineering control over her lover, and separated from her lover as he has gone abroad). ̃পঞ্চাশত্ n. & a. fifty-eight. ˜পঞ্চাশত্তম a. fifty-eighth. fem. ̃পঞ্চাশত্তমী । ̃পাদ a. octopod. n. an octopod; the spider; a mythological octopod said to be even stronger than the lion (cp. octopus, শরভ). ̃প্রহর n. a whole day and night, twenty-four hours, a form of collective religious chanting by the Hindus continuing for twenty-four hours at a stretch. adv. throughout the whole day and night; always; ceaselessly. ̃বজ্র n. the eight infallible weapons of the eight principal gods. ̃বজ্রমিলন n. simultaneous hurling of অষ্টবজ্র,, which causes the destruction of the universe; precipitation of a highly explosive condition. ̃বসু n. the eight demi-gods (see বসু). ̃বিধ a. of eight kinds. ̃ভুজ a. eight-handed, octagonal. n. an octagon. ̃ভুজা a. & n. fem. of অষ্টভুজ । □ n. a manifestation of Goddess Durga (দুর্গা). ̃ভৈরব n. the eight terrible manifestations of Shiva (শিব). অষ্টম a. eighth. ̃মঙ্গলা n. a manifestation of Durga (দুর্গা); the custom according to which the newly-wed groom comes back to the father-in-law's house with his wife on the eighth day of marriage. অষ্টমবর্ষীয় a. of or in the eighth year; eight years old. অষ্টমবাত্সরিক, অষ্টমবার্ষিক a. of the eighth year. ̃মাংশ n. one-eighth; the eighth part. ̃মী n. fem. the eighth day of either fortnight of a lunar month. a. fem. eighth; eight years old. ̃মূর্তি n. the eight manifestations of Shiva (শিব). ̃রম্ভা n. (pop.) a mere nothing, a hoax, a mare's nest; a fiasco. ̃ষষ্টি n. & a. sixty-eight. ˜ষষ্টিতম a. sixty-eighth. ̃সপ্ততি n. & a. seventy-eight. ˜সপ্ততিতম a. seventy-eighth. ̃সিদ্ধি n. the eight superhuman qualities attainable by ascetical or austere practice. 17)

(p. 48) apahṛta stolen; pilfered; plundered; looted; robbed, snatched; misappropriated; abducted; carried off, lifted. 25)

(p. 83) aśruta unheard; unheard-of; obscure; unheard-of before. ̃চর, ̃পূর্ব a. unheard-of-before. 11)

(p. 56) abahi, abahu, m̐abahu (obs.) presently, at once, just now; at present, now. 48)

(p. 16) atīta elapsed, passed away, gone by; dead; past; former, existed or occurred in the past. prep. past, beyond. n. past times or days; ancient times; the past; (gr.) the past tense. ̃কাল n. same as অতীত (n.). ̃বেত্তা n. one who knows things or incidents of the past. অতীত হওয়া v. to pass away, to elapse, to become a thing of the past. 4)