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1. Aryan | Arian, adj. and n. View full entry 1839
...Applied by some to the great division or family of languages, which includes Sanskrit, Zend, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, and Slavonic, with their modern representatives; also called Indo-European, ...
2. chilgoza, n. View full entry 1840
...More fully chilgoza pine. A Himalayan pine, Pinus gerardiana, valued for its edible seeds. Also (more fully chilgoza nut, chilgoza seed): the seed of...
3. fulwa, n. View full entry 1835
...(See quots.) Also fulwa-butter....
4. jagatī, n. View full entry 1843
...A Vedic metre of twelve syllables....
5. † moog, n.1 View full entry 1840
...= mung...
6. moth, n.2 View full entry 1840
...In full moth bean. A drought-resistant bean, Vigna aconitifolia (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), grown for food, fodder, and as a green manure in India and...
7. pada, n.1 View full entry 1843
...Hinduism. A version of the Vedic text that is separated into individual words, without the application of sandhi; a method of reciting the text according to these word divisions. Cf. ...
8. Saman, n.1 View full entry 1843
...A sacred text or verse forming the third of the four kinds of Vedas; the name of the Veda thus formed. Also attrib....
9. sarus, n. View full entry 1838
...The Indian crane Grus antigone....
10. sasin, n. View full entry 1834
...The common Indian antelope, Antilope bezoartica or cervicapra....
11. simool, n. View full entry 1835
...The (red) silk-cotton tree of India (Bombax ceiba)....
12. singhara, n. View full entry 1834
...The water-chestnut (Trapa bispinosa) of India, or the edible nut produced by this. Usually attrib. with nut....
13. til, n.1 View full entry 1840
...The Indian name of the plant Sesamum indicum; chiefly attrib. or in comb., as til seed; til oilalso til-seed oilblack til = ramtil...
14. varna, n. View full entry 1838
...Any one of the four early castes or social classes of Hindu society (see caste2a); the system or basis of this division....
