(p. 2) akṣaẏa undecaying; inexhaustible; unfailing; imperishable: undying; endless. ̃কীর্তি n. undying or immortal fame. ̃তূণ n. a quiver having an inexhaustible stock of arrows. ̃তৃতীয়া n. the third day of the lunar waxing fortnight of the month of Baisakh (বৈশাখ). ̃বট n. any of the very old banyan trees found at different holy places of the Hindus; (fig.) an immortal or deathless person. ̃লোক n. the abode of the blessed; heaven. ̃স্বর্গ n. the right to dwell permanently in heaven. ̃স্বর্গবাস n. dwelling permanently in heaven. 94)

(p. 2) agastya a mythological sage of India; (astrol.) the Canopus. ̃যাত্রা n. the first day of the month of Bhadra (ভাদ্র) when the sage Agastya asked the bending Vindhyas to wait till he came back and he never came back (this day has since been regarded by the Hindus as extremely inauspicious to set out on a journey; (cp. a corbie messenger). অগস্ত্যোদয় n. rise of the star Agastya or Canopus (about the 17th or 18th day of Bhadra). 126)

(p. 9) ajuradāra a labourer; a day-labourer. 105)

(p. 9) ajurā salary; wages for labour, esp. day-labour. 106)

(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)

(p. 17) adina an inauspicious day; hard times, difficult days. অদিনে পড়া to fall on evil times or days. 28)

(p. 17) adya today. অদ্যাকার, অদ্যতন a. of today, today's. অদ্যভক্ষ্যোধনুর্গণঃ n. (fig.) over-optimistic calculation; (inc. but pop.) state of having nothing to eat today, abject poverty. অদ্যাপি adv. even today; even now; even at present; as yet. অদ্যাবধি adv. from today; hereafter; till today; till now. 42)

(p. 20) adhunā in recent times, at present, nowadays. ̃তন a. of recent times, present-day; modern. ̃লুপ্ত a. now-extinct. 57)

(p. 24) anadhyāẏa, anadhyaẏana rest from study; a day or rest from study; a school holiday. 5)

(p. 24) ananta endless; boundless; unlimited; inexhaustible; everlasting, eternal; imperishable. n. Vishnu (বিষ্ণু); Shesha (শেষ) the thousand-headed king of snakes; an ornament, an armlet. ̃কাল n. eternity. ̃কালব্যাপী, ̃কালস্হায়ী a. eternal. everlasting. অনন্তকাল ধরে adv. for ever. ̃চতুর্দশী n. the fourteenth day of the lunar fortnight of the month of Bhadra (ভাদ্র); a religious penance observed on this day. ̃দেব n. Shesha (শেষ) the king of snakes. ̃নিদ্রা n. Vishnu's sleep on the person of Ananta (অনন্ত) the snake-king; everlasting or eternal sleep; (fig.) death. ̃নিদ্রায় নিদ্রিত sleeping the sleep that knows no breaking, sleeping eternal sleep, dead. ̃প্রকার a. of endless or countless varieties. ̃বীর্য a. of endless or inexhaustible strength or virility. ̃প্রভাব n. incessant or endless current or flow. ̃মূল n. a medicinal root. ̃রূপ, ̃রূপী a. of endless forms or shapes; of endless manifestations. ̃শয়ন, ̃শয্যা n. use of the person of Anantadeva (অনন্তদেব) by Vishnu as his bed; (fig.) death. ̃শীর্ষ a. hydra-headed. 16)

(p. 30) anudina day after day, everyday. 63)

(p. 41) antēbāsī a pupil or student or disciple (esp. one who boards at his master's house); one of a low-caste Hindu community known as the Chandalas (চন্ডাল) who in former days burned dead bodies professionally and dwelt in the outskirts of villages for they were regarded as untouchables. 9)

(p. 41) andha blind, sightless; extremely dark or gloomy. ('অন্ধ তামস'); utterly ignorant. n. a blind person. ̃কূপ n. a dark pit; a black hole. ̃কূপহত্যা n. (hist.) the Blackhole Tragedy. ̃তম a. darkest; extremely dark. ̃তমস n. utter darkness; blinding darkness. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. blindness; utter ignorance. ̃তামিস্র n. utter darkness. a. utterly dark. ̃প্রায় a. almost blind; like a blind; like a blind person. ̃বিশ্বাস n. blind faith. ̃ভাবে adv. blindly; rashly; heedlessly, indiscreetly. অন্ধের কিবা দিন কিবা রাত a blind person cannot distinguish between day and night or between brightness and gloom. অন্ধের নড়ি বা যষ্টি (lit.) a stick by the help of which a blind person moves; a blind man's prop; (fig.) a prop for a helpless or incapable person. 14)

(p. 46) aparāhna afternoon. অপরাহ্নে in the afternoon. আজ অপরাহ্নে this afternoon. কাল বা আগামীকাল অপরাহ্নে tomorrow afternoon. কাল বা গতকাল অপরাহ্নে yesterday afternoon. 14)

(p. 72) ambu water. ̃জ a. water-born. n. the lotus; conch. ̃জা n. fem. Goddess Lakshmi. ̃দ a. that which gives or supplies water. n. the cloud. ̃ধি, ̃নিধি n. the ocean; the sea. ̃বাচি, ̃বাচী n. three consecutive days usually of Ashara (আষাঢ়) for Hindu widows to fast as religious observance. ̃বাহ, ̃বাহী a. that which or one who carries water, water-carrying. n. the cloud. ̃বিম্ব n. bubble of water. 22)

(p. 73) arandhana the Hindu festival of abstaining from cooking observed on the last day of Bhadra (ভাদ্র); abstaining from cooking. 45)

(p. 75) aruṇa the sun; (myth.) the name of the charioteer of the sun; the newly-risen sun, the morning sun; glow of the morning sun; purple or crimson colour. a. purple, crimson; sanguine, florid. ̃নয়ন, ̃লোচন a. purple-eyed, crimsoneyed. অরুণিত a. crimsoned, purpled; reddened. অরুণিম a. having a purple or crimson glow; rosy. অরুণিমা n. crimson or purple glow; rosiness. অরুণোদয় n. sunrise; dawn, daybreak. অরুণোপল n. the ruby. 5)

(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. 83) aṣṭāha eight days. 29)

(p. 90) asūryampaśyā not ever sighted by the sun; living in the gynaeceum; living in the harem; never seeing the light of day; never coming out in the public. 22)

(p. 90) asta (myth.) an imaginary mountain behind which the sun goes down whilst setting (also অস্তগিরি, অস্তাচল); the setting of the sun, moon etc., going below the horizon; decline; end; fall. ̃গত, ̃মিত a. (of the sun, moon etc.) that which has set or gone below the horizon, declined. ̃গমন, ̃মন n. setting or going below the horizon, decline. ̃গামী, অস্তাচলগামী a. going to set, setting. অস্তোদয় n. the rising and setting (of the sun). adv. throughout the day; from dawn to dusk. 36)

(p. 90) aharaha every day, daily; day in and day out; always; incessantly. 95)

(p. 90) aharniśa, aharniśi day and night; all the time; always; incessantly. 96)

(p. 90) ahōrātra, ahōrātri day and night; always. 107)

(p. 90) ahna (used as a sfx.) day; the fixed part of a day (usu. three hours পূর্বাহ্ণ, মধ্যাহ্ন). 108)