the fact of being brilliant; great brightness, radiance, intensity, splendor; brilliance.

a wish; a desire.

the quality of being attractive or fascinating; beauty.

personal decoration; embellishment; ornamentation.

one of the sixteen apparent digits of the moon.

a lovely or desirable woman.

(rhet.) the beauty enhanced by love or its treatment, a style that is regarded as merit in poetics.

a cow that has calved recently.

love; affection; emotional attachment.

a knot; a protuberance.

a joint of the body.

a knotty, localised swelling; a hardened part of the vessel of the body; a node.

a malignant new growth anywhere in the body; a tumour.

a kind of plant .

a cow that has calved recently.

the black colour.

a black oil used to anoint some stone idols.

a female Jaina ascetic.

popularly referred to Mahatma Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi, who is regarded as the father of the nation by Indians.

(fig.) a simple, truthful person.

a female servant; a maid.

a female Jaina, religious mendicant.

of or having an aroma; smelling sweet; fragrant; aromatic.

a female Jaina ascetic.

= ಗಂಧ.

a bulbous rout, as of lotus plant, etc.

the strong-smelling bulb of the herb (Allium sativum) of the lily family, made up of small sections called cloves, used as seasoning in meats, salads, etc. garlic.

the edible, starchy, tuberous root of Amorphophallus campanulatus; elephant yam.

a visible mass of tiny, condensed water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere; cloud.

a volatile, crystalline ketone, with a strong characteristic odour, derived from the wood of the camphor tree or synthetically from pinene; camphor.

an abnormally swollen part of the body; a swelling.

a kind of disease of the male sexual glands.

the portion of the human body from the neck to the arm joint; the shoulder.

(pros.) a metre having four lines of which first and third have three groups of four units each and the second and fourth have five groups of four units each.

a body of organised soldiers trained to protect esp. the land of a nation or to attack another country; an army.

a group of people; a multitude.

the characteristic stimulation of any specific substance upon the olfactory nerves; odour; scent; smell.

a pleasing smell or odour; sweet scent, as of flowers; a fragrance; a perfume.

the tree Santalum album (=Sirium myrtifolium) of Santalaceae family, with sweet smelling heartwood used for carving.

its wood or its powder.

a sectarian mark of sandal paste put across the forehead.

an essential oil or perfume made from the petals of flowers etc. and mixed with water, used to sprinkle on the body.

haughty behaviour resulting from exaggerated self-esteem, wealth, status, abilities, etc.; arrogant pride.

the fluid flowing from the temples of an elephant in rut.

relation; kinship; connection.

a person who lives near another; a neighbour.

a very small or meagre quantity (as could be perceived only by its smell).

a precious stone.

mere superficial or little knowledge (of something).

(Dvaita Phil.) the ability or faculty of perceiving by smell, one of the forty ways of knowing objects.

(Vaiśeṣika phil.) one of the twenty four properties.

a cross piece of wood for holding the planks of a door.

ಗಂಧ ಗಾಳಿ gandha gāḷi (dupl.) elementary or basic knowledge; minimum information; ಗಂಧದ ಎಣ್ಣೆ gandhada eṇṇe the oil extracted from sandal wood, used as an aromatic substance; ಗಂಧದ ಕಡ್ಡಿ gandhada kaḍḍi a thin stick burned to get fragrant fumes, esp. in religious rites; an incense stick; ಗಂಧದ ಕಲ್ಲು gandhada kallu a coarse-surfaced stone on which a piece of sandal wood is rubbed to get sandal-paste; ಗಂಧದ ಬಿಲ್ಲೆ gandhada bille a substance in the form of a small cake, used to make perfumes; ಗಂಧದ ಕೊರಡು ತೇದಷ್ಟು ಪರಿಮಳ gandhada koraḍu tēdaṣṭu parimaḷa (prov.) experiences, however painful they are, make one more knowledgeable, understanding and mature 2. a matured person or a person devoted to a cause, becomes morfe and more matured or devoted, as he or she passes through real hardship in life.

a young child.

a young of cow or of any other animal.

a term of affection used in addressing a younger person.

desired; longed; craved; loved.

attracting; charming; beautiful.

(dial.) a surface having gradual slope; downward gradient.

(dial.) a deep place or any of the deepest parts, as in water or earth.

(dial.) steep descent.

a man with reference to a woman to whom he is married; a husband.

a man who is loved by or who loves, a woman; a lover.

(in comp.) a stone.

the normal place of dwelling; a house.

the moon.

iron.

Křṣṇa.

Skanda (Subrahmaṇya).

any piece of certain kinds of material that has the property of attracting iron; a magnet.

(rhet.) the style that is pleasant, lucid, vivid and very attractive considered as the merits in poetics.