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- of, related to, happening in the month of Caitra or the spring season (Caitra and Vaiśakha months).
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- Caitra, the first month in the Hindu lunar calendar.
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- the spring season consisting of Caitra and Vaiśakha the first two months of Hindu lunar calendar (corresponding approx. to April and May).
- the Lord of this season.
- a crimsoned turmeric water sprinkled on persons on festival days as a symbol of friendship or on auspicious days as marriage etc.
- excessive frequency and looseness of bowel movements; diarrhea.
- an acute, highly contagious virus disease characterised by prolonged fever, vomiting, and pustular eruptions that often leave pitted scars or pockmarks, when healed; small pox.
- (fig.) a feeling of exultant joy; joyfulness; great pleasure; gaiety; elation; merriment; mirth.
- (mus.) in Karnāṭaka system, a musical mode (rāga) derived from the main mode Māyāmāḷavagauḷa.
- (pros.) a metrical verse having four lines, each having four groups of three syllables each followed by two long syllables (uuu, uuu, --u, -uu, -, -).
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- the plant Gaertnera racemosa.
- the jasmine plant Jasminum auriculatum of Oleaceae family.
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- a bad or unsuitable match; mismatch.
- a breach or failure of a contract.
- (gram.) the fact of euphonic junction not happening (wehre it should have happened).
- (rhet.) a fault in making euphonic junction, that leads to an indecent or offensive meaning.