a crucible made of a special kind of material which melts with gold and silver and burns to ashes

Teacher, Knowing one

a kind of dish made with a dough flour

a large book, a book, a manuscript (written on long separate leaves of paper or palmyra connected by a string through the centre)

water

a kind of sweet gourd, Petha is a translucent soft candy from Agra. Usually rectangular or cylindrical, it is made from the ash gourd vegetable

full-grown animal (esp. elephant)

a kind of sweetmeat

village market

book cover

sinew, tendon

sinew, tendon

onion root

rump, breech, hind-quarter, hip, buttock

soaked, washed and grind lentils

comrade, playmate, follower, supporter

follower of any religion or cult, member of a mystical brotherhood, sectarian

turban

stone

a class of Brahmans specializing in teaching scriptures

pull of a muscle from a particular places

(of animals) be very sensitive to touch