an ornament for the ankles; an anklet.

an anklet worn as a mark of honour conferred by a king for extraordinary valour.

(fig.) an excellent man.

the white colour.

a mendicant wearing white cloth.

an earthy clay coloured by iron oxide, usu. yellow or reddish brown (used as a pigment in paints); ochre.

of the colour of pure snow or milk; white or somewhat white; white; whitish.

the white colour.

a disorder in which there is a loss of pigment resulting in white patches of skin; vitiligo.

a group of robbers who plunder the wayfarers.

a variety of sugarcane having vertical stripes of white and red colours.

a sectarian mark made on the forehead with sandal.

(collectively) different coloured stripes or patches (on the body of a horse).

(hist.) name of a country covering parts of present West Bengal and Bihar.

a picture, painted or drawn.

a worm or insect.

(in gen.) a lotus flower.

the lotus plant Nelumbo nucifera ( = Nelumbium speciosum) of Nymphaeaceae family.

its white flower.

a river or stream.

an embellishment; an ornament.

a group of robbers who plunder the wayfarers.

a medicinal plant used in curing a kind of eye-disease.

of the colour of pure snow milk; white or somewhat white; white; whitish.

lacking colour; colourless; faded.

a variety of sugarcane, that has white vertical stripes.

a sectarian mark.

name of a country (prob. corresponding to the present Jharkhand and part of Bengal states).

its people.