= ಸ್ಪರ್ಶ - 1 & 8.

= ಸ್ಪರ್ಶ - 1 & 8.

a touching or being touched; a physical contact; a touch.

a mode or manner of religious initiation in which the spiritual teacher touches the head of a person being initiated and symbolically admits him to the fraternity.

the state of being associated; association; companionship.

anything that comes into contact.

a spreading (of a disease) by direct contact; communication (of diseases).

any departure from health; a disease; sickness.

a gift; a donation.

a kind of stone believed to convert any base metal into gold by its physical contact.

air or wind.

the sky.

sexual intercourse; coitus.

a man who keeps close and secret watch on another or others.

(buddh.) knowledge received through sensual organs.

(gram.) any of the classified consonants (from ಕ to ಮ).

any consonant pronounced by complete stopping of the outgoing breath as with the lips, tongue or velum; a stop.