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an order; a command.
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a rule, injunction ordinance, statute.
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a direction, manner prescribed for the performance of something.
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a book, treatise, scripture that deals with the procedure for observing religious rites.
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an observance, duty enjoined by the scripture.
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the way, manner, method in which something is to be done.
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Brahma, the Creator of the Universe.
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Viṣṇu.
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a decent, respectable man.
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a learned man.
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a poet.
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a number of persons, come together to be recognised as a unit; a group.
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time; period of time.
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a physician; a doctor.
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the power or agency supposed to determine the outcome of events before they occur; destiny; fate.
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an alternative means or possibility.
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a set of circumstances or attributes characterizing a person or thing at a given time; state; condition.
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(gram.) the form of a word designated as commanding verb (as 'do', 'go', etc.).
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ವಿಧಿ ನಿಷೇಧ vidhi niṣēdha (pl.) the things permitted or required and the things forbidden; 2. rules regulating these; precept and prohibition.