name of a country, currently known as Orissa (or Oḍissa), in eastern India.

growth or augmentation in numbers, size, strength; an increasing; an increase.

a sum paid or charged for the use of money or for borrowing money; interest.

= ವಟ್ಟ.

elder; sernior; older.

revered; respectable; honourable.

older; belonging to previous time; ancient.

big; large; huge.

uncivilised; rude.

the state of being opposed or hostile to another or to each other; opposition or hostility; antagonism.

a class of persons engaged in cutting stone, road-work, digging tanks etc.

a member of this class.

one who lacks finish, grace, tact or taste in his work; a crude worker; a rude person.

a man belonging to the modern Orissa state in Eastern India, on the Bay of Bengal.

an old man.

a respectable, honourable man.