(p. 220) kāṭha wood; timber; firewood; (fig.) skeleton (রোগে দেহের কাঠ বেরিয়ে পড়েছে). a. motionless like a log (ভয়ে কাঠ হওয়া); stiffened (মরে কাঠ হওয়া); juiceless, sapless (শুকিয়ে কাঠ); dumbfounded. ̃কয়লা n. charcoal. কাঠ কাঠ a. hard and dry and rough. ̃কুড়ানি n. an extremely poor woman who lives by collecting twigs and leaves of trees to be burnt as firewood. ̃খোলা n. a frying pot in which sand is not used. ̃গড়া n. a small wooden enclosure, a box, a dock (সাক্ষীর বা আসামির কাঠগড়া). ̃গোলা n. a timberyard. ̃গোলাপ n. a variety of scentless wild rose, the sweet-brier, the eglantine. ̃ঠোকরা n. the woodpecker. ̃পিঁপড়ে n. a variety of large and black ant living on trees. ̃ফড়িং n. a variety of very thin grasshopper. ̃ফাটা a. scorching, blazing, burning. কাঠফাটা রোদ scorching rays of the sun. ̃বমি n. dry vomit. ̃বিড়াল, (coll.) ̃বেড়াল, (coll.) ̃বেরাল n. the squirrel. fem. ̃বিড়ালী, (coll.) ̃বেড়ালী । ̃মল্লিকা n. a variety of very sweet-scented wild flower belonging to the species of the jasmine. ̃রা var. of কাটরা । ̃রিয়া var. of কাঠুরিয়া । কাঠে কাঠে adv. & a. exactly fitting to all grooves or points (কাঠে কাঠে মেলা); exactly coinciding; evenly matched; diamond cuts diamond, when Greek meets Greek (কাঠে কাঠে লড়াই). কাঠের a. of wood, made of wood, wooden. অনেক কাঠখড় পোড়ানো to work laboriously (for), to toil hard, to make every endeavour. কাঠের মিস্তিরি n. a carpenter. 37)

(p. 291) gaṅgā the Ganges, the Ganga; a river; a wife of Shiva (শিব). (poet.) গঙ্গা, গঙ্গজ a. Gangetic; riverine. গঙ্গাজলি1 n. act of putting the water of the Ganges into the mouth of a dying person; act of swearing by taking the water of the Ganges in one's palm. গঙ্গাজলি2 a. having the colour of the water of the Ganges, of a brownish cream colour. ̃তীর n. bank of the Ganges. ̃ধর n. an appellation of Shiva (শিব). ̃পুত্র n. (in the Mahabharata) Bhishma; one belonging to a Hindu caste whose business is to cremate or to help cremation, (cp.) an undertaker by caste. ̃প্রাপ্ত a. (lit.) one whose mortal remains have been thrown in the Ganges; dead. গঙ্গাপ্রাপ্ত হওয়া v. to die (esp. holily). ̃প্রাপ্তি n. death (esp. in a holy manner). ̃ফড়িং n. the grasshopper (of the green and large variety). ̃বাসী a. living near or on the bank of the Ganges; riverine. ̃মাহাত্ম্য n. the glory of the Ganges; a hymn glorifying the Ganges. ̃যমুনা n. the Ganges and the Jumna or their confluence. a. black-and-white; mixed with gold and silver, bimetallic. ̃যাত্রা n. act of carrying a dying person to the bank of the Ganges. গঙ্গাযাত্রা করা v. to be carried to the bank of the Ganges on the eve of one's death. গঙ্গাযাত্রা করানো v. to carry (a dying person) to the bank of the Ganges. ̃যাত্রী n. a person who is being carried to the bank of the Ganges on the eve of his death; a dying man; a pilgrim to the mouth of the Ganges esp. on a holy occasion. fem. ̃যাত্রিণী । ̃লাভ same as গঙ্গাপ্রাপ্তি । ̃সংগম, ̃সাগর n. the confluence of the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, the mouth of the Ganges. ̃স্নান n. bathing in the Ganges. গঙ্গাস্নান করা v. to bathe in the Ganges; (fig.) to cleanse oneself of guilt, sin etc. to make oneself pure. 6)