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a sport; game.
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a dallying; triffling; dalliance.
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the quality of being charming, lovely; charm; loveliness.
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that which is lovely or charming; a beautiful thing.
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the quality of being soft, gentle; tenderness; softness; gentleness.
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the quality of being without guile or deceit; artlessness; naiveness.
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one of the four types of Lalitāgama.
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a kind of plant.
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(dance.) a raising of both hands above the head, crossing each other at the wrist with - a) fingers are stretched and turned or b) the two forefingers being locked with each other and other fingers closed inward toward the palm.
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(dance.) one of the thirty three minor sentiments, which includes a smile on the face, a moving of the eye-brows up and down, a looking at the ground, used in expressing love.
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(pros.) a metrical verse having four lines each of which having eight groups of three syllables ( uuu, uuu, -uu, uuu, u-u, uuu, uuu. u--).
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(pros.) a metrical verse not having limitations on the number of lines, but having in each line four groups of five prosodic units.
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(mus.) in Karnāṭaka system, a musical mode (rāga) derived from the main mode Māyāmāḷavagauḷa.
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a kind of dance.