the act or process of learning.

acquaintance with facts; knowledge.

great ability or proficiency; expertness that comes from training, practice, etc.

the quality of mechanically repeating whatever is taught without understanding fully.

(dial.) the skill in deception; craftiness.

a small swelling or projection on a plant, from which a flower develops; a flower-bud.

small flame at the end of a burning wick of a lamp.

a fruit in its very early stage.

a young leave or bunch of young leaves.

a particular kind of prose.

the system of growing different crops every year, instead of the same in a field.

absolute darkness; complete absence of light; pitch-darkness.

any flaw, defect or shortcoming; a blemish.

a series of clouds.

a green or greenish-blue poisonous compound, a basic acetate of copper, formed while food is being cooked in copper vessels.

the most formidable, wrathful form of Mother-Goddess Pārvati, representing the destructive aspect of mother-nature.

the black collyrium.

(myth.) the tenth and last incarnation of Viṣṇu in his capacity of the destroyer as the wicked and liberator of the world from its enemies in the fourth of the four ages of the universe.

a kind of poetical conversation, in the form of a song, sung by a group of persons hailing the excellence of women over men (as a sport)[the counterpart of this hailing the excellence of men is turā].

one of the two groups of people who sing this.

a thick mixture of mud and water.

the perturbed, agitated mind.

ಕಲಕಾಗು kalakāgu (the mind) to get perturbed; to become agitated.

a thick liquid in which relatively large number of small insoluble particles are in suspension and remain for long without getting settled to the bottom; gel; sol; emulsion.

the breaking of a divine or moral law, either by a conscious or unconscious act; a religious flaw; a sin.

dirt; filth; soil; defilement.

undisollved particles settled to the bottom of a liquid; dreg; lees.

a waxlike yellowish substance exuded by the ears; earwax; cerumen.

a false statement made deliberately; a lie.

a high opinion of oneself, often unduly exaggerated; pride; arrogance.

a beautiful woman.

the tenth incarnation of Viṣṇu, believed to happen for instituting a new age of purity and spiritual renewal, at the end of the current age i.e. Kaliyuga, the fourth of the four mythological ages.