Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—KonkanJackson, A. M. T. (Arthur Mason Tippetts)
Religion
Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—Konkan
Jackson, A. M. T. (Arthur Mason Tippetts)
Folklore -- India
GÁRHÁNE: Supplication to an idol.
GARUD: The eagle.
GARUD PURÁN: Name of a purán.
GÁTRÁD: Name of a goddess.
GAU: A measure of distance equal to 1 1/3 miles.
GAUTAM: Name of a sage.
GAVA: A wild ox.
GAVALI: A caste of herdsmen.
GAVATDEV: Name of a godling.
GAVATI: An order of ghosts.
GAYÁSUR: Name of a demon.
GÁYATRI: Name of a daughter of Brahma.
GÁYATRI MANTRA: A sacred verse from the Vedas held specially sacred
and repeated by every Bráhman at his morning and evening devotion. The
verse is in honour of the sun.
GÁYATRI PURASCHARAN: A form of devotion requiring the recitation of
the Gáyatri mantra a hundred thousand times with certain symbolic
ceremonies.
GÁYATRIPURASCHAVACHAN: See Gáyatripurascharan.
GEDI: A bat.
GEDI-DÁNDA: An outdoor game played by boys.
GERIA: A boy who takes an active part in the Holi festival.
GHÁDI: An exorcist. A caste of temple ministrants or an individual
of it.
GHADI: A measure of time equal to twenty-four minutes.
GHADULO: A process for removing the effects of the evil eye.
GHÁNCHINI: An order of ghosts.
GHÁNDHARAVI: An order of ghosts.
GHÁNI: That quantity of oil seeds which is put in at one time to be
crushed in an oil mill.
GHÁT: Steps on the side of a river or tank leading to the water.
GHATOTKACHA: Name of a demon.
GHELI: Mad.
GHELO: Mad.
GHELUN: Mad.
GHERÁYALA: Eclipsed.
GHETA: A sheep.
GHODO: A horse.
GHUGARI: Grain boiled whole, i.e., unsplit and unhusked.
GHUMAT: A sort of musical instrument--an earthen vessel, pitcher-form,
covered over at the larger mouth with leather.
GHUNA: A mysterious watery pit.
GIDOTÁN: Name of a creeper.
GILLI-DÁNDA: A play amongst boys, trapstick.
GIRÁSIA: A Rajput landholder.
GIRHA: A water demon. Applied to Ráhu or to an eclipse in general,
solar or lunar.
GIRI: An order or individual of it among Gosávis.
GOCHADI: Cattle or dog louse.
GODHO: A bull.
GOKARN: Name of a mythological king.
GOKHALO: A niche in the wall.
GOKUL: The name of the village at which Krishna was brought up.
GOKHARU: A species of thorns.
GOKUL-ASHTAMI: The eighth day of the dark half of Bhádrapad celebrated
as the birthday of Krishna.
GOL: Molasses.
GOLÁBA: Name of a goddess.
GOLAMBÁDEVI: Name of a goddess.
GOMUKH: Mouth of a cow.
GONDARO: Place where the village cattle rest.
GONDHAL: A kind of religious dance.
GOOLVEL: A kind of creeper.
GOPÁLSANTÁN: Name of an incantation.
GOPRADÁN: Gift of a cow with its calf to a Bráhman.
GOR: A priest.
GORA: A black earthen vessel filled with curds.
GORADIA: A name of Hanumán.
GORÁIN: A married unwidowed woman.
GORAKHA: Name of a saint.
GORAKH CHINCH: A kind of tree.
GORJI: A preceptor.
GORAKHRÁJ: Name of a saint.
GOSÁVI: An ascetic.
GOTRA: A section of a caste having a common ancestor.
GOURI-PUJAN: The worship of the goddess Gouri, a festival observed
only by women.
GOUTRAD: A vow in honour of the cow lasting from the eleventh day to
the fifteenth day of the bright half of Bhádrapad.
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