(p. 203) kabyabāha fire believed to carry the food offered to deceased ancestors. 2)

(p. 234) kiśalaẏa a green and tender leaf of a tree; a young shoot with such leaves. 52)

(p. 251) kṛśara, kṛśarānna kedgeree; a kind of edible hotchpotch (usu. made of rice, pigeonpulse, spices and sometimes vegetables). 10)

(p. 240) kuṇḍa a hole, a cavity (নাভিকুণ্ড, হোমকুণ্ড); a tank or lake or basin etc. (সীতাকুণ্ড); a round and shallow receptacle (তাম্রকুণ্ড). 33)

(p. 220) kādambinī a collection of clouds. 65)

(p. 194) kapardaka a snail-like gastropod resembling a miniature conch, a cowrie; a cowrie-shell used as a coin or medium of exchange of the smallest denomination; a coin of the smallest denomination, (cp.) a stiver. ̃বিহীন, ̃শূন্য, ̃হীন a. penniless, (coll.) broke; extremely poor. 141)

(p. 237) kumphu a chinese style of karate, kung fu. 9)

(p. 220) kānuna a law; a regulation; a rule. কালাকানুন a notorious act; a black act. 77)

(p. 204) kaṅka, kaḍ়ṅka a small portable waterpot used for holy purposes and by ascetics; a beggar's bowl; a coconut-shell or a fragment of it esp. when used as a pot; a pot, a vessel, a box; the skull. 27)

(p. 206) karuṇa pathetic, sad; doleful; compassionate (করুণহৃদয়) করুণ স্বরে adv. in a doleful or piteous or plaintive voice, in a mournful or sorrowful tone. 16)

(p. 240) kuntala hair (of human head); tresses. 56)

(p. 240) kuḍ়āla, kuḍ়āli an axe. 30)

(p. 257) kōdalānō to dig or to dig up with a spade. 11)

(p. 208) kala4 a low sweet and indistinct sound, a sweet murmur; warble (of birds); babble (of streams). a. (of sound) sweet low and indistinct. ̃কণ্ঠ a. making a sweet low and indistinct sound; sweetly murmuring; warbling; babbling; sweet-voiced, sweet-toned; (fig.) composing sweet poems (কলকণ্ঠ কবি). fem. কলকণ্ঠী । ̃কল, ̃কলানি n. repeated sweet murmur or babble or warble, (usu. coll.) rapid loud talk. ̃কল করা ̃কলানো v. to murmur or babble or warble sweetly or repeatedly; (usu. coll.) to talk rapidly and loudly. ̃ঘোষ n. the cuckoo. ̃তান n. a sweet note. ̃ধ্বনি, ̃নাদ same as কল4 (n.). ̃নাদী a. making a low sweet and indistinct sound, murmuring or babbling or warbling sweetly. fem. কলনাদিনী । ̃রব, ̃রোল n. confused loud noise as made by a multitude of people shouting and talking at a time, an uproar, a hullabaloo, tumult. ̃স্বন, ̃স্বর n. a low sweet and indistinct sound or voice, a sweet murmur or babble. a. murmuring or babbling sweetly. fem. কলস্বনা । ̃হংস n. the swan, the gander (fem. the goose); a small aquatic bird akin to the sandpiper. fem. কলহংসী । ̃হাস, ̃হাস্য n. a gentle articulate smile with a sweet cackling noise. n. fem. ̃হাসিনী one who smiles gently with a sweet cackling noise. ̃হাস্য করা v. to laugh cacklingly. 40)

(p. 243) kurtā a small jacket or coat or shirt. লালকুর্তা n. the Red Shirts; patriotic and social welfare organization of NorthWest Frontier formed by Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan in India's pre-independence days. 61)