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

(fig.) a simple, truthful person.

a cow that has calved recently.

love; affection; emotional attachment.

a female Jaina, religious mendicant.

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

the black colour.

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 black oil used to anoint some stone idols.

a female Jaina ascetic.

a female Jaina ascetic.

a female servant; a maid.

a cow that has calved recently.

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 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.

= ಗಂಧ.

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.

= ಕಂಧರ.