(p. 786) bētāla2 (myth.) a dead body possessed by a ghost. ̃সিদ্ধ a. having absolute domination over a ghost possessing a dead body. 10)

(p. 760) bidhāna a scriptural prescript or ruling; a prescript, a ruling (সভাপতির বিধান); a prescription (পথ্যবিধান); provision, arrangement (আনন্দবিধান); legislation; a law; a rule; a system (নববিধান). বিধান দেওয়া v. to prescribe; to issue a ruling, to rule. ̃কর্তা n. a director (fem. directress, directrix), a regulator, a controller; a law-giver; a legislator. fem. ̃কর্ত্রী । ̃তন্ত্র n. a code of laws; a system of legislation. বিধান-পরিষদ n. a legislative council. ̃শাস্ত্র n. jurisprudence, law. ̃সংসদ n. the Parliament. ̃সংহিতা n. a treatise on jurisprudence, a law-book. ̃সভা n. a legislative assembly. 3)

(p. 767) billi the cat. 101)

(p. 794) byāpinī of ব্যাপী । 86)

(p. 794) byasta eager; excited; impatient; anxious; worried; hurrying or hurried, bustling; engaged, employed; busy; distracted or perplexed; scattered; diffused; inverse. ব্যস্ত করা v. to make one hurry (esp. unduly); to make one bustle; to make one eager or impatient or anxious; to excite. ব্যস্ত থাকা v. to be engaged (in); to be busy (with). ব্যস্ত রাখা v. to keep one engaged (in) or busy (with). ̃-অনুপাত n. (arith.) an inverse ratio. ̃অনুরূপ a. (geom.) inversely similar. ̃তা n. eagerness; excitement; impatience; anxiety; worry; hurry, bustle; busyness, business; distraction, perplexity; scattered state; diffusion; inversion. ̃বাগীশ a. fussy. ̃সমস্ত a. flurried, bustling. ̃সমস্ত হয়ে helter-skelter. ব্যস্তালোক n. (phys.) diffused light. 51)

(p. 738) bāṭakhārā a mass of metal adjusted to a standard and used in weighing or in calculating weight, a weight. 39)

(p. 721) bākasa a medicinal plant, Justicia gandrussa. 281)

(p. 790) bēhēḍa having one's head turned; arrogant; bereft of common sense; bereft of power of thinking; thoughtless; off one's head (বেহেড মাতাল); besotted, sottish (নেশায় বেহেড). 19)

(p. 773) biṣākta smeared with or containing poison, poisonous; venomous (বিষাক্ত সাপ); malignantly septic (বিষাক্ত ঘা); malignant (বিষাক্ত ফোড়া); spiteful or acrimonious (বিষাক্ত বচন); bitter (বিষাক্ত লম্পর্ক). বিষাক্ত করা v. (of a wound etc.) to cause sepsis, to make malignant or septic; (of relation, mind etc.) to embitter. 30)

(p. 747) bālighaḍ়i a sand-glass. 28)

(p. 746) bāraṇa1 the elephant. 6)

(p. 794) byāmōha ignorance; stupefaction; perplexity; infatuation. 96)

(p. 715) baṭuẏā a small purselike bag made of cloth. 42)

(p. 760) bidhēẏaka a draft of a proposed law, a bill. 17)

(p. 794) byādhinī a hunter's or fowler's wife; a female of the hunting or fowling cast; (rare) a huntress. 73)