(p. 492) dāna2 act of giving; act of giving away; bestowal; award; charitable giving or distribution (অন্নদান); act of giving in marriage (কন্যাদান); offering, sacrifice, dedication (পরার্থে জীবনদান); contribution; a gift or a charitable gift (মহামূল্য দান); an offering, a sacrifice; a donation; a throw or cast (at dice. etc.); a turn (for doing something). দান করা v. to give; to give away; to give or distribute in charity; to donate, to contribute; to bestow; to confer; to award; to give in marriage; to offer, to sacrifice; to dedicate. ̃কর্ম, ̃কার্য n. practice of charity; act or instance of charity. ̃কাতর, ̃কুন্ঠ a. slow or unwilling to give, not charitable; miserly, parsimonious, stingy, close-fisted, niggardly. ̃খয়রাত n. bounty, charity; charitable deeds; act or practice of charity. ̃ধর্ম n. the virtue of charity. ̃ধ্যান n. charity and religious meditation. ̃পত্র n. a deed of gift. ̃বীর a. & n. one who is extremely (lit. heroically) bountiful. ˜যোগ্য a. worthy of being given. ̃শীল a. bountiful, munificent, charitable, generous. ̃শীলতা n. bounty, munificence, charity; generosity. ̃শৌন্ড same as দানবীর । ̃সজ্জা n. (in a wedding) display of gifts given to the bride and the bridegroom. ̃সত্র n. an almshouse; a charitable institution. ̃সাগর n. sixteen sets of gifts given in a sraddha (শ্রাদ্ধ) ceremony. ̃সামগ্রী n. an article of gift (esp. one given to the bride or bridegroom at a wedding). যেমন দান তেমনি দক্ষিণা (fig.) a niggardly master will have a lazy servant. 40)

(p. 485) dambha vanity, conceit; pride; boast, brag, vaunt, tall talk; arrogance, haughtiness. দম্ভ করা v. to boast, to brag, to vaunt, to talk tall or big; to challenge. 12)

(p. 497) dāśa a fisherman; one belonging to the fishing caste. 7)

(p. 506) durākāṅkṣā unrealizable longing or desire, a cry for the moon; an ambition or aspiration. দুরাকাঙ্ক্ষ, দুরাকাঙ্ক্ষী a. having an unrealizable longing or desire, audaciously or inordinately ambitious; ambitious. fem. দুরাকাঙ্ক্ষিণী । 17)

(p. 508) dēkhatā seen; occurring before one's eyes. adv. before one's eyes; contemporaneously. 118)

(p. 508) duṣprabēśya, duṣprabēśa difficult to enter or penetrate. 71)

(p. 484) daphē item. দফে দফে adv. by instalments; item by item. 9)

(p. 485) dahā to burn or be burned; to scorch or be scorched; to inflame or be inflamed; (fig.) to afflict or be afflicted. 98)

(p. 500) duḥsparśa difficult to touch. 67)

(p. 522) dbāpara the third age of the world according to Hindu scriptures, the brazen age. 44)

(p. 485) dambhī conceited, vainglorious, proud; boastful, braggart; arrogant, haughty. 13)

(p. 522) dbaipa relating to or living in an island, insular; relating to the tiger or cheetah, tigrine. 70)

(p. 506) durabasha fallen into a bad state; distressed; miserable, wretched; poverty-stricken, in straitened circumstances, indigent. দুরবস্হা bad or low state; distress; misery, wretchedness; poverty, indigence. 12)

(p. 517) dōnā1 pocket for holding a roll of betel-leaf. 71)

(p. 508) dēbāẏudha a god's weapon; a divine or celestial weapon; the rainbow. 139)