VALGO SAMACHARI: Death anniversary. VALLABHÁCHÁRYA: A great saint and scholar who founded a sect of Vaishnavism. VALO: A kind of cattle disease. VALU: Eccentric. VÁMA-MÁRGI: A follower of the Váma-márga that is a mode of worship in which the idol is worshipped by the left hand, liquor drunk, etc., etc. VÁMAN: A dwarf; name of the fifth incarnation of Vishnu. VANA-SHASTHI: Name of a Holiday. VANTRI: An order of ghosts. VÁNZIÁPANA: Barrenness. VARADANI: Name of a goddess. VARADHAN: Name of a deity. VARÁH: A boar. VARÁHA-SANHITA: Name of a book. VARSHÁ-RITU: The rainy season. VÁRUL: The white ant-hill. VÁSANA: Desire. VASANTAPANCHAMI: The fifth day of the bright half of Mágh. VASANT-RITU: The spring. VÁSH: An oblation of rice and sweets offered to crows. VASHIKARAN: A branch of black magic. VASHISHTHA: Name of a sage. VÁSTU: A religious rite performed on entering a new house. VÁSTDEVATA: The guardian spirit of dwelling places. VÁSTUN: See Vástu. VÁSTUPUJAN: See Vástu. VASU: A bull-calf or bull branded and set at liberty. VASUBÁRAS: The twelfth day of the bright half of Ashvin. VASUDEVA: Name of the father of Krishna. VASU-DWÁDASI: See Vasubáras. VÁSUKI: Name of a snake. VÁSTU SHÁNTI: See Vástu. VATA-SÁVITRI VRAT: Name of a vow observed by women on the full moon day of Jyeshtha. VÁTI: A small metal cup. VÁTKI: See Váti. VÁV: A reservoir of water; a tank. VÁYALI: Eccentric. VÁYU: Wind; the deity presiding over the wind. VÁYUSUTA: A name of Máruti. VEDA: Name of the scriptures of the Hindus. VEDATRAYI: The three vedas, Rik, Yajus and Sáma. VEDHA: Malign influence. VEDIC: Relating to the Vedas; as enjoined in the Vedas. VEHALA: A tree, Beleric Myrobalan. VELAN: A stick. VELO: A creeper. VETÁL: The lord of ghosts; name of a village deity. VETRASARPA: A cane stick with an image of a snake at its end. VIDÁ-SUPÁRI: Betel nut and leaves. VIDYUT: Lightning. VAJAYÁDASHAMI: The tenth day of the bright half of Ashvin. VIJLI: Lightning. VIKRAM: Name of a king. VIMÁN: A celestial car. VINÁYAK-CHATURTHI: The fourth day of the bright half of every month. VINCHI: A female scorpion. VIR: A male fiend; ghost of an unmarried Kshatriya. VIRA: An order of ghosts; name of a village deity. VISHA: Poison. VISHÁKHA: Name of a constellation VISHESHA PUJA: Special worship. VISHI: A cycle of twenty years. VISHNU: The second god of the Hindu Trinity. VISHNUSAHASRANÁMA: A book containing the thousand names of Vishnu. VISHNUYÁGA: A sacrifice in honour of Vishnu. VISHOTAK: Name of a disease. VISHVÁMITRA: Name of a sage. VISHWARUPA: That exists in all forms, an epithet of Vishnu. VISHWESHWAR: A name of Shiva. VISWÁTI: An order of ghosts. VITHOBA: Name of a god. VISUCHIKA: Name of a cholera goddess. VIVÁNCHARA: An order of ghosts. VRAT: A vow. VRIKODARA: Wolf-bellied, an epithet of Bhima. VRINDA: Name of the wife of Jalendhar, a demon. VRISCHIKA: Scorpion. VRISHABHA: Taurus. VRITRASÁR: Name of a demon.