a starting or commencing; a beginning; commencement.

a ceremony performed before initiating to the study of the Vedas; now, chiefly, the ceremony of investing a boy with sacred thread.

a festival of renewing the sacred thread, in Śrāvaṇa, the fifth month of Hindulunar calendar.

the act or an instance of approaching; a going near.

a starting or commencing; a beginning.

a test of honesty; a trial of fidelity.

a plan, contrivance, means; expedient, stratagem, etc.

attendance on a patient, treatment, practice of medicine, etc.

he who takes initiation; a person who begins anything; a beginner.

a small town near a bigger town to check overgrowth; a satellite town.