any of several guards enclosing a person or thing.

one of the bodyguards of a king in the battlefield.

a bodyguard in gen.

an officer who conveys the orders or instructions of a king or the chief of an army.

= ಪರಿತೋಷಿ1.

a man who is happy or is pleased.

a woman who is happy or is pleased.

a prohibiting or being prohibited; prohibition.

a negating; negation.

a speech, argument denying, refuting something.

(rhet.) a kind of figure of speech that refutes, refuses to accept a popular thing or belief.

(gram.) the negative sense (of a word).

an order by a competent authority forbidding any activity; a prohibitory order.