(p. 9) aghōra2 not terrible; calm. n. God Shiva (শিব). ̃পন্হী n. one of a religious community practsing dreadful and abominable rites. ̃মন্ত্র n. incantation to invoke Shiva. 4)

(p. 16) atyājya incapable of being given up or away; not to be abandoned or deserted or relinquished or disowned; indissoluble. 20)

(p. 17) adharma any act in contravention of scriptural or moral laws; a sinful act, a sin; irreligiousness; an unrighteous act; unrighteousness. a. sinful; unrighteous. অধর্ম করা to do or commit an unrighteous or sinful act, to do an immoral act. ̃চারী, অধর্মাচারী a. irreligious; ungodly. ̃পরায়ণ a. unrighteous; sinful. অধর্মাচরণ n. committing sins; sinful practice; unrighteous practice. অধর্মী a. sinful; unrighteous; unreligious; impious; (loos.) treacherous. 55)

(p. 17) adhārmika irreligious; impious; unrighteous; sinful; vicious. ̃তা n. irreligiousness; immorality; impiety; unrighteousness. sinfulness. 59)

(p. 20) adhibāsa2, adhibāsana ceremonial purification of a person on the eve of a solemn function (বরের অধিবাস); any performance preliminary to any solemn ceremony (পূজার অধিবাস); invocation. 14)

(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. 26) anāshā lack of trust or faith; no-confidence; unreliability. ̃প্রস্তাব n. a noconfidence motion. ̃ভাজন a. untrustworthy; unreliable. অনাস্হাসূচক মত vote of no-confidence. 86)

(p. 26) anicchā unwillingness, reluctance; lack of consent; indifference, disinterestedness. ̃কৃত a. done or performed reluctantly or unknowingly; not deliberate, unintentional, undesigned. ̃পূর্বক adv. unwillingly, reluctantly; without consent or agreement; indifferently, disinterestedly. অনিচ্ছা প্রকাশ করা v. to express unwillingness or reluctance; to express disrelish; to disagree, to refuse to consent. ̃ভরে, অনিচ্ছায় same as ̃পূর্বক । ̃সত্ত্বেও adv. notwithstanding unwillingness or reluctance or lack of consent or disagreement or lack of interest. ̃সহকারে same as অনিচ্ছাপূর্বক । 95)

(p. 29) anirbhara non-reliance, non-dependence. ̃তা n. same as অনির্ভর । ̃যোগ্য a. not reliable, unreliable, not dependable. 27)

(p. 30) anupaśamanīẏa not possible to alleviate or assuage, unrelievable, unmitigable; incurable. 103)

(p. 41) apacāra straying from one's own religion; taking bad or faulty or prohibited diet; pernicious conduct or behaviour; a fault; corruption. ̃-নিরোধ n. curbing corruption. ̃-নিরোধ বিভাগ the anti-corruption department. 55)

(p. 48) apēkṣā await; waiting (for) or tarrying; expectation, expectancy, anticipation (সুদিনের বা সাহায্যলাভের অপেক্ষা); reliance (দৈবের অপেক্ষা); caring for or depending on (কারও অপেক্ষা না রাখা). con. than, of, in comparison to or with. অপেক্ষা করা v. to await; to wait for; to tarry; to expect, to anticipate; to rely on; to care for. ̃কৃত adv. comparatively; relatively. 66)

(p. 56) abahāra theft; armistice; cease-fire; transfer or removal or withdrawal of soldiers from the front to the camp; conversion to another religion, apostasy; (comm.) a discount. 47)

(p. 56) abiśbasta untrustworthy, unfaithful, unreliable; perfidious. ̃তা n. untrustworthiness, unreliability; perfidiousness; perfidy. 122)

(p. 56) abiśbāsa distrust, mistrust; incredulity; disbelief; want of conviction or faith; no-confidence; suspicion. অবিশ্বাস করা v. to distrust, to look on with distrust; to disbelieve; to have no faith or confidence in; to treat with suspicion, to suspect. অবিশ্বাসী a. untrustworthy, unfaithful, unreliable; perfidious; distrustful; incredulous; disbelieving; lacking in conviction or faith; suspicious; (esp. in phil.) sceptical. n. a doubter, a disbeliever; (phil.) a sceptic. fem. অবিশ্বাসিনী । অবিশ্বাস্য a. incredible, unbelievable. 123)

(p. 63) abyāhati escape; exemption; release; acquittal, absolution; relief. অব্যাহতি দেওয়া v. to exempt; to release; to acquit; to relieve. অব্যাহতি পাওয়া v. to escape; to be exempted; to be released or acquitted or relieved. 20)

(p. 63) abhāba non-existence, absence; want, lack; need; dearth, shortage, scarcity; financial want; indigence; deficiency; deficit. ̃গ্রস্ত a. stricken with want, needy; indigent; poverty-stricken, destitute. ̃পূরণ n. meeting or supplying wants or needs; making up for deficiency or deficit. ̃মুক্ত a. relieved of want or poverty. অভাব মেটানো n. v. removing or to remove want. ̃মোচন n. removal of want or need or poverty; making up for deficiency or deficit. ̃মোচন করা v. to remove a want or wants or a need or needs; to make up for deficiency or deficit; to free from poverty or indigence. অভাবে স্বভাব নষ্ট want is at the root of corruption, (cp) necessity knows no law. 40)

(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) ayājanīẏa, ayājya debarred from offering religious sacrifice; debarred from calling for the services of a priest to perform religious rites on one's behalf; (cp.) excommunicated. অযাজ্যযাজন n. act of conducting religious rites as a priest on behalf of an অযাজনীয় person. অযাজ্যযাজী a. (of a priest) guilty of conducting religious rites on behalf of an অযাজনীয় person. n. such a priest. 15)

(p. 75) aruci loss of appetite; strong aversion (chiefly to food and pleasure); distaste, disinclination, disrelish; apathy. ̃কর a. causing aversion to food and pleasure; unpalatable; distasteful, disagreeable. 4)

(p. 80) aśōka free from grief. n. a kind of flower or its tree, the flamboyant; the great Maurya emperor of India. ̃কানন n. a flamboyant-grove (esp. one in which Sita in the Ramayana was kept as a captive). ̃চক্র n. the symbolic wheel introduced by King Ashoka illustrating the stages of birth prior to salvation (it is the emblem of the official flag of India). ̃বন n. same as ̃কানন । ̃লিপি n. any of the religious and moral edicts of Ashoka inscribed on stone-pillars, an inscription of Ashoka. ̃স্তম্ভ n. any of the stone-pillars of Ashoka on which his edicts are inscribed, an Ashoka pillar (it is the official emblem of India). 38)

(p. 80) aśbattha an Indian fig-tree, a peepul-tree, ficus religiosa. 46)

(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. 90) astra a missile; a weapon; arms (অস্ত্রহীন); a tool or instrument for cutting, boring etc. (ডাক্তারি অস্ত্র); (fig.) one who or that which is used as an instrument (সে তোমার অস্ত্র). অস্ত্র করা v. to operate (upon) surgically, to lance (a boil etc.), to cut open with a lancet. ̃ক্ষত n. a wound caused by a weapon. ̃ক্ষেপ, ̃ক্ষেপণ n. the discharge of a missile; act of striking with a weapon. ̃ক্ষেপণ করা v. to discharge or hurl a missile; to strike with a weapon. ̃গ্রহণ n. same as অস্ত্রধারণ । ̃চালনা n. use of arms. ̃চিকিত্সক n. a surgeon. ̃চিকিত্সা n. surgery. ̃চিকিত্সা করা v. to operate (upon); to practise surgery. ̃ত্যাগ n. the discharge of a missile; act of relinquishing or giving up one's arms. ̃ত্যাগ করা v. to discharge or hurl a missile; to relinquish or give up one's arms, to lay down one's arms; to surrender. ̃ধারণ n. act of arming oneself; act of taking up arms; act of encountering in an armed fight. ̃ধারণ করা v. to arm oneself; to take up arms; to encounter in a battle. ̃ধারী a. armed (অস্ত্রধারী প্রহরী) n. an armed person. ̃নিবারণ n. act of warding off or counteracting a missile thrown. ̃নিবারণ করা v. to ward off or counteract a missile thrown. ̃বর্ষণ n. throwing missiles; shower of missiles. ̃বল n. military power; power of the arms. ̃বিদ a. & n. one who is skilled in using weapons. ˜বিদ্যা n. the art and science of using weapons; surgery. ̃বৃষ্টি n. a shower of missiles. ̃লেখা n. a wound caused by a weapon; mark of such a wound. ̃শস্ত্র n. (collec.) weapons, arms, armoury. ̃শালা same as অস্ত্রাগার । ̃সংবরণ n. act of laying down arms; cease-fire; act of refraining from using weapons; act of withdrawing a missile thrown. ̃সংবরণ করা v. to lay down arms; to refrain from using weapons; to withdraw a missile thrown. ̃হীন a. unarmed; disarmed. ̃হীন করা v. to unarm; to disarm. 44)

(p. 99) ākhaḍ়ā a gymnasium; a place or institution where people assemble to practise anything esp. music, play-acting, etc.; a place where the Vaishnavas assemble for religious worship; (facet.) a club or society; (dero.) a haunt of vice, a den. ̃ই n. dramatic rehearsal. ̃ধারী n. the headman or the keeper of a place where the Vaishnavas assemble for religious worship. 45)