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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).
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the Lord of this season.
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a crimsoned turmeric water sprinkled on persons on festival days as a symbol of friendship or on auspicious days as marriage etc.
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excessive frequency and looseness of bowel movements; diarrhea.
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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.
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(fig.) a feeling of exultant joy; joyfulness; great pleasure; gaiety; elation; merriment; mirth.
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(mus.) in Karnāṭaka system, a musical mode (rāga) derived from the main mode Māyāmāḷavagauḷa.
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(pros.) a metrical verse having four lines, each having four groups of three syllables each followed by two long syllables (uuu, uuu, --u, -uu, -, -).