Nature Cure

Appedix E :
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.
• Khichadia : Preparation of rice mixed with cooked dal : or pulse
• Kshetra Sannyasa : Restriction to a definite field of work to the exclusion of other fields
• Lakha : Hundred thousand
• Langotia : 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 : 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 rotia : 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

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