AGNI-SANSKÁR: The rite of setting fire to a corpse. AGRI: Name of a caste or an individual of it. AHALYA: The wife of the sage Gautam. AHEVA NAVAMI: The ninth day of the dark half of Bhádrapad. AHI: Name of a demon. AHIR: A caste of shepherds. AHUTI: A handful of rice, ghi, sesamum, etc., cast into fire, water, upon the ground etc., as an offering to the deities. AIRÁVAT: Name of the elephant of Indra; the elephant presiding over the east. AJA: A goat. AJAMO: Lingusticum ajwaen. AKÁSH: The sky. AKÁSH-GANGA: The milky way. AKHAND SAUBHÁGYA: Perpetual unwidowhood. AKIK: A kind of stone. AKHÁ TRIJ: The third day of the bright half of Vaishákh. AKSHAYA TRITIYA: See Akhá Trij. ALAWÁNA: A sort of shawl. ALWANT: A spirit of a woman dying in childbirth or during menses. ALU: An esculent vegetable. ALUNDA: Name of a vow. AMANI: A kind of tree. AMAR: Immortal. AMATHO: Useless. AMATHO MÁMO: An order of ghosts. AMÁVÁSYA: The last day of a month. AMBA: Name of a goddess. AMBIL: Conjee. AMBO: Mango. AMNÁYESHWAR: A name of the god Mahádev. ANAGH: Name of a vow. ANAGODHA: See Anagh. ANANT CHATURDASHI: The fourteenth day of the dark half of Bhádrapad sacred to Vishnu. ANDHÁRIO: An order of ghosts. ANGIRAS: Name of a sage. ANJALI: Palmful. ANJAN: Soot used as collyrium. ANJANI: Mother of Máruti. ÁNJANI: A sore or mole on the eye-lid. ANKADA: Name of a poisonous plant. ANNADEVA: The god presiding over food. ANNAKUTA: The eighth or tenth day of the bright half of Ashvin or the second day of the bright half of Kártik when sweets are offered to gods. ANNAPURNA: The goddess presiding over food. ANTARAL: Name of a deity. ANTARAPAT: The piece of cloth which is held between the bride and bridegroom at the time of a Hindu wedding. ANTYESHTI: Funeral rites. ANURÁDHA: Name of a constellation. ANUSHTHÁN: Performance of certain ceremonies and works in propitiation of a god. APASMÁR: Epilepsy. APSARA: Certain female divinities who reside in the sky and are the wives of the Gandharvas. They are sometimes represented as the common women of the gods. APTA: Name of a tree. ARANI: Elaeodendron glaucum. ARATI: The ceremony of waving (around an idol, a guru, etc.,) a platter containing a burning lamp. ARDHODAYA: Half-risen state of a heavenly body. ARDRA: Name of a constellation. ARGHYA: A respectful offering to a god or a venerable person consisting of various ingredients or of water only. ARJUNA: The third of the five Pándava brothers. ARUNDHATI: Wife of Vasishtha; name of a star. ASARA: A water nymph. ASAN: A prayer carpet. ASHÁDH: The fourth month of the Deccani Hindu and the ninth month of the Gujarát Hindu calendar year. ASHÁPURI: Name of a goddess. ASHLESHA: Name of a constellation. ASHO: A corrupted form of Ashvin. ASHAPATI: Name of a mythological king. ASHTABHÁRO: An order of ghosts. ASHTADALA: Eight-cornered. ASHTA-DIK-PÁLA: Protectors of the eight different directions.