Non-English words with their meanings

Akash- ether

Angithi - a small coal stove

Ashram - a place of spiritual retirement; Gandhiji's colony of workers

Ayurveda - the science of health or medicine, regarded as a supplement to Atharvaveda, which is one of the four Vedas or Hindu sacred books

Bapu - father

Bhajan - hymn, prayer in the form of song Bhakri- flat, hard, unleavened bread

Bidi - indigenous cigarettes in which tobacco is wrapped in hand-twisted dry leaves

Bilva - leaf of a sacred tree of that name, Aegles Marmelos or wood-apple

Brahmacharya - chastity

Chapati - flat, unleavened bread

Dharma - law of conduct, duty

Ghi, Ghee - clarified melted butter

Go-seva - service of the cow

Go-seva Sangh - an association for the protection and welfare of cows

Hakim - physician following Unani system of medicine

Kavo - a hot beverage made up of water, cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper, etc.

Khichadi - a preparation of rice mixed with cooked dal or pulse

Kshetra Sannyasa - restriction to a definite field of work to the exclusion of other fields

Lakh - a hundred thousand

Langoti - a small piece of cloth tied round the private parts

Lota - a small metal vessel

Mowhra - seed of Mowhra tree, Bassia Latifolia

Mung - a kind of pulse

Neem - a tropical tree, Melia Azaderach

Pooja - a ritualistic worship and offering

Purnanna - literally, complete diet; an experiment in which vegetables and two or three kinds of flour are steamed together possessing complete food values

Purnanna roti - a bread steamed with vegetables in it and possessing complete food values

Ramanama - name of Rama or God

Shastra - scripture; authoritative writing

Shloka - verse

Vaidya - Ayurvedic doctor