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.

(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.

= ಗೂಥ.

kept from otheṛs knowledge or view; secret.

working with hidden aims or methods.

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.

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.).

the Supreme God.

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

waste matter from the bowels; excrements; faeces.