(p. 41) andha blind, sightless; extremely dark or gloomy. ('অন্ধ তামস'); utterly ignorant. n. a blind person. ̃কূপ n. a dark pit; a black hole. ̃কূপহত্যা n. (hist.) the Blackhole Tragedy. ̃তম a. darkest; extremely dark. ̃তমস n. utter darkness; blinding darkness. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. blindness; utter ignorance. ̃তামিস্র n. utter darkness. a. utterly dark. ̃প্রায় a. almost blind; like a blind; like a blind person. ̃বিশ্বাস n. blind faith. ̃ভাবে adv. blindly; rashly; heedlessly, indiscreetly. অন্ধের কিবা দিন কিবা রাত a blind person cannot distinguish between day and night or between brightness and gloom. অন্ধের নড়ি বা যষ্টি (lit.) a stick by the help of which a blind person moves; a blind man's prop; (fig.) a prop for a helpless or incapable person. 14)

(p. 63) abhiruci desire, liking, pleasure; wish; (arch.) purpose, intention, design. তোমার যেমন অভিরুচি (হয়) as you please. 116)

(p. 80) aśōdhana lack of purification or sanctification or refinement or reclamation or rectification or correction; (rare) nonrepayment, non-requital. অশোধনীয়, অশোধ্য a. incapable of being purified or sanctified or refined or reclaimed or rectified or corrected or repaid or requited; incorrigible; unrepayable. অশোধিত a. not purified; unsanctified, unrefined; unreclaimed; unrectified; unrepaid, unrequited. 41)

(p. 90) ahaṅkāra self-conceit; vanity, pride; haughtiness, arrogance; vainglory. অহংকার করা v. to take pride in; to boast, to brag. ̃বিহীন a. unpretentious; modest. অহংকারী a. self-conceited; proud; haughty, arrogant; vainglorious. অহংকারে মত্ত maddened with pride. 91)

(p. 30) anuprabha phosphorescent. অনুপ্রভা n. phosphorescence.

(p. 9) aṅgāra coal; carbon; cinder, charcoal; (fig.) a person or thing causing shame or disgrace (কুলের অঙ্গার বা কলন্ক). ̃ময় a. carbonaceous. ̃কৃষ্ণ a. black as coal, very black. ̃ধানী n. an incense-pot, censer. ̃ক n. carbon. অঙ্গারককমণি n. coral. অঙ্গারক রসায়ন n. organic chemistry. ̃ যৌগিক n. carbon compounds. অঙ্গারঃ শতধৌতেন মলিনত্বং ন মুঞ্চতি coal never changes its hue however well it may be washed; black will take no other hue. অঙ্গারাম্ল n. carbonic acid. 21)

(p. 47) aparipṛkta (phys.) unsaturated. 8)

(p. 22) anaṅga bodiless, unembodied, incorporeal. n. Madan (মদন) the god of love. ̃মোহন n. Krishna (কৃষ্ণ). ̃শর n. a shaft or shafts of the god of love; pangs of love, love-sickness. অনঙ্গারি n. Shiva (শিব). 38)

(p. 79) alipāna drinking wine; a drinking bout. 25)

(p. 48) apāra shoreless (অপার সমুদ্র); unlimited, boundless, endless, vast, immense. 40)

(p. 63) abhi denoting: front, approach, proximity, onward direction, spaciousness, ambi-, circum-, peri-, pro-, towards, to-. 44)

(p. 41) apagraha (astrol.) an unfavourable or malignant planet (or star). 51)

(p. 41) antika adjacent; proximate; near; close. n. adjacency; proximity; nearness; the extreme; extremity. অন্তিকতা n. nearness, proximity. 7)

(p. 63) abhiṣaṅga embrace; attachment; envy; calumny, scandal, disparagement, vilification, defamation; misfortune, disaster; grief. 129)

(p. 55) abarā most excellent, supreme, superb. n. an appellation of Goddess Durga. 29)