a colourful, decorative cloth spread on the back of an elephant.

a colourful cloth or blanket, in gen.

the grass Desmostachya tripinnata of Poaceae family; ಕುಶ grass.

rhythmic movement of the body and feet ordinarily to music; dance or dancing.

a man who dances; a dancer.

Naṭarāja, a form of Śiva, the presiding deity of dance.

= ಖುದ್ದು1.

= ಗೂಥ.

(dance.) one of the foot-gestures, -striking of the groud with the forepart of the foot.

lack of something essential or required; imperfection; a defect; a deficiency.

an unhealthy condition of the body (or a part of it) or the mind; illness, sickness; a disease.

the condition of adverse fortune; adversity; difficulty; a danger.

kept from otheṛs knowledge or view; secret.

working with hidden aims or methods.

closeness; proximity.

the quality or fact of being tight; tightness; close-fitting.

that which is short.

the condition of being dense or being crowded with.

the condition of being thick, viscous (said of liquid food, etc.).

waste matter from the bowels; excrements; faeces.

= ಗೂಥ.

the excretory opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal; the anus.

the Supreme God.

= ಖಾತೆ2.

the reddish-brown or reddish-yellow coating formed on iron or steel by oxidation, as during exposure to air and moisture; any coating or film formed on any other metal by oxidation or corrosion; rust.

= ಖಾದನ.

the place where the earth is dug, excavated; a trench; moat; a defensive ditch around a castle.

deep or intense sorrow; grief.

an artificial pond or water-tank.

any of the shaped sheets of canvas or other strong material spread to catch or deflect the wind, by means of which some vessels are driven forward; a sail.

a visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere high above the general level of the ground; a cloud.