MÁTA ASHTAMI: The eighth day of the navarátra. MÁTARI: Name of a goddess. MATH: A monastery. MÁTHBHÁJI: A kind of green vegetable. MÁTI: Earth. MÁTRIKA: A mother; an order of semi-divine beings. MÁULI: Name of a goddess. MAUNYA VRATA: A vow of silence. MÁVADI: Ghost of a woman dying with certain desires unfulfilled. MÁYA: Illusion. MÁYÁKA: Name of a goddess. MEDA: Marrow. MEDINI: The earth. MEGH: A cloud. MEGHARÁJA: The god of rains. MEGHLADDU: A sweet ball of wheat flour fried in ghi. MEHULO: See Maghalo. MEKAIL: Name of an angel. MELADI: An order of ghosts. MELDI: See Meladi. MELI VIDYA: Sacrilegious art. MENA: A kind of bird. MERU: Name of a mythological mountain. MESHA: Aries. MHÁLSA: Name of a goddess. MHÁRJÁI: Name of a goddess. MHARLOBA: Name of a deity. MHASHYA: A species of water spirits. MHASOBA: Name of a village deity; lord of ghosts. MIANA: A class of Musalmáns. MINA: Pisces. MINDHAL: A kind of fruit. MIRI: Particle. MITHUN: Gemini. MIYALI: An order of ghosts. MOBHARA: A hollow stone used for threshing corn. MOCHI: A caste of shoe-makers. MOCHINI: An order of ghosts. MOGRI: Rat-tailed raddish. MOHAN: A branch of black magic. MOHINI: A fascinating woman. MOHARO: The stone found in the head of the snake. MOHOR: See Moharo. MOKSHA: Salvation. MOLANI: An order of ghosts. MOTÁKAT: Name of a vow. MOR: A peacock. MORIA: An earthen bowl. MOT MÁVALI: Mother Mary. MOTUDUKH: A kind of cattle disease. MOVA KHARAVA: Name of a cattle disease. MRIG: A deer; name of a constellation. MRIGÁNKA: The moon. MRIGA TONCHANA: The moon. MRITYUNJAYA: Name of an incantation. MUCHKUND: Name of a sage. MUJÁVAR: A sweeper of a mosque devoutly or piously fixed to it. MUKTI: Salvation. MUL: Name of a star. MULO: Raddish. MUNDA: A kind of wind. MUNGESHWAR MAHÁDEV: A name of Shiva. MUNGI MÁTA: Name of a goddess; dumb mother. MUNJA: Spirit of Bráhman boy who dies immediately after his thread ceremony. MURALI: A flute. MURDUNGA: Tabour. MURLI: See Murali. MUSAL: A rice pounder. MUTH: The fist. MUTH MÁRANE: Throwing of a handful of rice over which incantations have been repeated; sending a bewitched lemon to a person to whom a disease is to be transferred or who is to be killed. MUVA-KESHIBI: A kind of cattle disease. N. NÁCHANI: A kind of grain. NÁDÁPUDI: A coloured cord with a small parcel containing incense, red powder, etc. NÁDÁSÁDI: A cord and a robe. NÁG: A snake; a species of semi-divine beings half men half serpents in form. NÁGA: See Nág. NÁGABALI: A propitiatory offering to snakes. NÁGAR: A caste of Bráhmans found in Gujarát. NÁGCHÁMFA: A flower tree, Alpinia mutans. NÁGDEV: The snake god. NÁGKANYA: A snake girl. NÁG KESAR: Messua Ferrea. NÁGMAGA: A class of beggars who worship the snake. NÁGNÁTH: Name of a snake deity. NÁG PANCHAMI: The fifth day of the bright half Shrávan, a holiday in honour of the snake deity. NÁGO: Shameless. NÁGOBA: The snake deity.