(p. 386) jaḍ়3 inanimate; insensate; perceptible by the senses; worldly, earthly; material (জড়বাদ); inactive, inert; stupid, imbecile; ignorant. n. an imbecile; something inanimate or insensate (জড়ের তিন অবস্হা). ̃ক্রিয় a. sluggish. ̃জগত্ n. the inanimate world; the physical world; the material world. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. inanimateness, insensateness; state of being perceptible by the senses; worldliness, earthliness; materiality; inactivity, intertia; uneasiness (শরীরের জড়তা); stupidity, imbecility; ignorance; sluggishness. ̃পদার্থ n. any inanimate substance; inanimate matter; (fig.) an extremely inactive or immobile person, a person bereft of all sensation. ̃পিণ্ড n. a mass of anything insensate, a conglomerated mass of things. ̃পুত্তলি n. a puppet; (fig.) a person rendered inactive or a person without any freedom of action. ̃বাদ n. materialism. ̃বাদী a. materialistic. n. a materialist. ̃বিজ্ঞান n. physical or natural science. ̃বুদ্ধি a. imbecile, fatuous, oafish. ̃ভরত n. (myth.) King Bharata who lost his salvation because of his over-attachment to a sawn and when reborn he remembered the incidents of his former life and so refrained from speaking and all voluntary activities; (fig.) an imbecile or inactive person, a clodhopper. a. imbecile or inactive. ̃সড় a. cowering or cowered. জড়সড় হওয়া v. to flinch or shrink as through fear or shyness. 25)

(p. 442) tantra a scripture or service book or the system of the religious worship of Shaktas (শাক্ত); any scripture or service book or system or cult of religious worship; a religious order (শৈবতন্ত্র, সন্ন্যাসতন্ত্র); a section or branch of the Vedas (বেদ); a science (চিকিত্সাতন্ত্র); a system (সাধনাতন্ত্র); a system of government (প্রজাতন্ত্র, রাজতন্ত্র); a doctrine (বস্তুতন্ত্র, জড়তন্ত্র); a decision; a chapter or section (পঞ্চতন্ত্র); any esoteric and mystical charm or means (মন্ত্রতন্ত্র); a handloom (তন্ত্রবায়); gut (পশুর তন্ত্র); a string (বীণাতন্ত্র). ̃ধার, ̃ধারক n. a Brahman who reads out excerpts from a service book for the priest to recite them. ̃বাপ n. a weaver (by trade or caste). ̃মন্ত্র n. charms and incantations. ̃শাস্ত্র n. scriptures; theory or system contained in the scriptures. ̃সার n. a digest of religious service. 124)