(p. 30) anupūrba due order or succession, serial order. a. following due order or succession. 110)

(p. 41) apadārtha worthless, useless; trashy; incompetent, unfit; good-for-nothing. ̃তা n. worthlessness; incompetence; uselessness. 74)

(p. 87) asamaẏa inopportune or unsuitable time; inauspicious time; hard times; time of stress. অসময়ে adv. at an inopportune or unsuitable time; at an inauspicious time; during or in hard times, in time of need; unseasonably. অসময়ের ফল an unseasonal fruit. অসময়ের বন্ধু a friend in need. অসময়ের বৃষ্টি unseasonal or untimely rain. 13)

(p. 56) abarōha getting down, descent; (log.) deduction. ̃ণ n. descent. অবরোহণ করা v. to get down, to descend. ̃ণী n. a flight of steps or stairs; a ladder; an escalator. অবরোহ প্রণালী n. deductive method. অবরোহী a. (log.) deductive. ̃পত্র n. a landing permit. 4)

(p. 53) abakṣaẏa depreciation; dilapidation; decadence; ruin; loss; erosion, waste. 7)

(p. 20) adhibidya erudite, learned. 18)

(p. 72) amūlapratyakṣa (psy.) hallucination. 7)

(p. 34) anuyāẏī going after, following; consequent upon; according (to); after the example of; similar. adv. according to. 42)

(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) apasaṃskṛti degenerate culture; perverted or corrupt taste, mentality etc. 9)

(p. 2) akarma a misdeed, a mischief; a useless act; inaction, absence of work. 19)

(p. 72) amōcanīẏa, amōcya that which cannot be dispelled or removed. 18)

(p. 71) amitra one who is not a friend, an adversary, an enemy, a foe. 16)

(p. 30) anudghāṭita unopened (as a door, lid etc.) unrevealed or undiscovered (অনুদ্ঘাটিত রহস্য). 66)

(p. 34) anubartī following; attending, accompanying; subservient, obeying, complying; compliant, submissive. n. a follower. fem. অনুবর্তিনী । অনুবর্তিতা n. following or attending or accompanying; subserviency, obedience, compliance, acquiescence. অনুবর্তী হওয়া v. to follow; to pursue; to succeed; to be the imitation or repetition of; to be subservient to; to obey, to comply with, to acquiesce in, to toe the line. 10)