a starting or beginning; a getting into action or motion; commencement; a start.

occupation, profession, business, trade, craft, etc.; a work.

the profession of a cultivator; agriculture.

(Jain.) an act, work or business that results in committing harm to the living beings.

an unexpanded flower; a flower-bud.

a prolonged period of dry weather; lack of rain; drought.

a dried up water canal or tank.

the drawing or squeezing milk from a cow, into a hallow in ground, with a belief that it would ward off the evil effects of bad-omens.

the plant Oxytenathera bourdillonii of Poaceae family; thornless bamboo.

a prolonged period of dry weather; lack of rain; drought.

a dried up water canal or tank.

the drawing or squeezing milk from a cow, into a hallow in ground, with a belief that it would ward off the evil effects of bad-omens.

the art and practice of cultivating crops; cultivation; agriculture; farming.

a commencing; a beginning.

difficulty in digesting food, dyspepsia.

the fact of food not being digested; indigestion.