1. ಅಶನ

    ♪ aśana
      noun
    1. the act of eating (as food).
    2. that which is eaten as food; food in gen. ; esp. boiled and prepared rice for eating as food.

  2. ಅಶನಿ

    ♪ aśani
      noun
    1. an electric discharge with lightning an thunder; a thunderbolt.
    2. a bolt or missile imagined as hurled by a stroke of lightning by Indra, the Lord of the gods.
    3. (myth.) an imaginary device to hurl big boulders on the hostile army.