(p. 748) bālya age up to one's sixteenth birth day; boyhood or girlhood, childhood, infancy. ̃কাল n. childhood, infancy. ̃প্রণয়, ̃প্রেম n. calf-love; childhood friendship. ̃বন্ধু n. a friend of one's childhood days. ̃বিধবা same as বালবিধবা । see বাল ।̃বিবাহ n. early marriage, child-marriage. ̃শিক্ষা n. child education; primary education. ̃সখা same as বাল্যবন্ধু । ̃সস্গী, ̃সহচর n. a companion of one's childhood days. বাল্যাবস্হা n. childhood. 3)

(p. 792) bō expressing : a whirring sound as caused by quick revolution, flight etc. বোঁ করে with a whir, whirringly; very swiftly; dartingly. 21)

(p. 790) bēsudi without interest, bearing no interest, interest-free. 6)

(p. 760) bidhēẏa lawful, rightful; proper; that should be done or undertaken; predicable. n. (gr. & log.) a predicate; (phil.) a predicable. 16)

(p. 758) bidhātā a director, a controller, a regulator (ভাগ্যবিধাতা); God; Providence; Brahma (ব্রহ্ম). ̃পুরুষ n. Providence personified (who is believed to write down the future of a newborn baby on its forehead).

(p. 721) bān̐dipōtā a chequered cloth having multi-coloured stripes. 271)

(p. 751) bicchinna separated; torn or broken away; detached; isolated; estranged; stray or sporadic. fem. বিচ্ছিন্না । বিচ্ছিন্ন করা v. to separate; to tear or break away; to detach; to isolate; to estrange; to alienate. বিচ্ছিন্নতা n. separation; detachment; isolation; secession; estrangement; alienation; lack of compactness, strayness. বিচ্ছিন্নতাবাদ n. separatism; disintegration. বিচ্ছিন্নতাবাদী n. & a. separatist; a separatist. 74)

(p. 721) bardhaka causing or promoting increase or growth or development or improvement or prosperity or expansion, augmentative, multiplicative. 110)

(p. 761) bipattāriṇī a (Hindu) goddess; the goddess who keeps or saves from trouble or danger. 51)

(p. 790) baidhabya widowhood. ̃বাস n. widow's weeds. 47)

(p. 767) bibhūti Godhead; godhead, divinity; special powers of Shiva (শিব); sanctifying grace, unction; prosperity; riches, wealth; ashes. ̃ভূষণ n. one who smears one's body with ashes; Shiva (শিব). 10)

(p. 721) baliẏē having good speaking power, eloquent; having the gift of the gab. বলিয়ে-কইয়ে a. having the gift of good talking, eloquent. 153)

(p. 717) banāta broad-cloth; baize. 48)

(p. 786) bēdabyāsa Vyasa (ব্যাস) the author of the Mahabharata. 29)

(p. 779) buṭa1 chick-pea, gram. 21)