ID | Word | Notes | Type |
2434 | majhiyā | n. exonym for the ethnic group of Yakkhā. | t.t. |
2005 | majilis | var. majlis; n. assembly, court. | t.t. |
1002 | makarasaṅkrānti | var. makarasaṃkrānti, māghesaṃgrā̃tī, māghyāsaṃkrānti; n. 1) day marking the passage of the sun into the zodical sign of capricorn (makara) and first day of the solar month of Māgha. 2) the festival held on that day. | t.t. |
2101 | māla | n. an office for collecting revenues (M.L. Karmacharya 1996: 63; M.C. Regmi 1978: 862). Cf. māla aḍḍā | t.t. |
2522 | māla aḍḍā | n. a district-level revenue office; see also māla . | t.t. |
2741 | mālapota aḍḍā | var. māla aḍḍā, mālapota, māla; n. land revenue office where records of land ownership and transference are kept. | t.t. |
2554 | mālapuvā | n. small, sweet, thick fritters made of wheat flour, sugar and spices or of bananas, milk, sugar and spices; prepared on festive occasions in Nepal and Northern India (Pathak 2007: 341; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malpua). | t.t. |
1990 | malauṭo | var. malauṭā; n. lit. "solitary"; a category of sacrificial buffaloes. Under the provision that the list given in E_2779_0005 provides a grading of bulls according to either size or age, the malauṭo is the third, bigger than kaṭuvā and kāṃjokho, but smaller than satāra. | t.t. |
2596 | Mālī | [New. Gathu] n. a Newar caste whose members are gardeners by profession. | t.t. |
2501 | mālika | [lw. H. fr. A. mālik] var. mālik, mālīka; n. master, owner. | t.t. |
1011 | māmulī | var. māmalī, māmuli; 1) adj. ordinary, usual, customary. 2) n. usual remuneration or provision, usually non-monetary. 3) n. a customary levy related to religious functions (see e.g. Regmi 1979: 158);
cf. koṭa māmulī, Dasaĩ māmulī. | t.t. |
1976 | mānā | n. a volumetric unit equivalent to 0.568 litres, or 1/8 of a pāthi. | t.t. |
2556 | mānā | var. mana; n. 1) volumetric measure unit equivalent to 0.568 litres, or 1/8th of a pāthi (M.R. Pant 2002: 134 ); 2) a measure of weight equal to 82.28 pounds. | t.t. |
1978 | mānā cāmala | var. mānā cāvala; n. a land grant given to a bhārādāra or a high ranking officer in order to provide him with daily supplies of food, under the condition that it turns into the state-owned (raikara) land upon his death; also known as khuvā-birtā. | t.t. |
1824 | manamahanta | n. central overseer of the Bairāgīs and other Vaiṣṇavas (cf. Burghart 1984). | t.t. |
2755 | maṇḍala | [S.] var. maṃdaḥ, maṃdaḥ; circle; a ritual map that outlines the positioning of various deities of the group of the central deity of a mandaḥ. Every mandaḥ is identified with its central deity, who is placed at the center of a yantra design that consists of four entrances at four cardinal points with a toraṇa on top. The central deity, who may be represented by one of his/her implement, is sometimes surrounded by the eight emblems of aṣṭamaṅgala or other related deities usually represented by one of their implements. All of these are seen within a border of frill pattern that is again surrounded by other circles of lotus, vajra and fire known as padmāvalī, vajrāvalī and jvālāvalī respectively (Śākya 1120 NS: 63). Some mandaḥs may also contain two additional circles of water and eight charnel grounds called aṣṭaśmaśāna. There is also a unique kāyamandaḥ (lit. mandaḥ of the body) in the Newar tradition that is drawn up for performing mhapujā. This mandaḥ is not related to any deity and consists of eight petals of lotus symbolizing aṣṭamaṅgala in the Buddhist tradition. In the Hindu tradition, a kāyamandaḥ symbolizes three forms of deha (body): a. sthūla deha (the human body), b. sukṣma deha (the human mind), and c. kāraṇa deha (the devine knowledge). The combination of material body and mind makes it a person who then begins to comtemplate on divinities, which in turn enables a being to become devine (Vaidya 1120 NS: 58). A mandaḥ is also taken as the basis for the placement of struts on a temple or monastery. A strut with an image of a certain deity is placed in the same direction as the deity is seen on a mandaḥ of the main deity of that particular temple or monastery. The construction of every caitya is also based on a mandaḥ. | t.t. |
1805 | maṇḍalāi | var. maṇḍalāī; n. 1) central overseer of yogīs; 2) office of the central overseer (cf. Parājulī et al. 1995: s.v. maṇḍala; Bouillier 1991: 18 n. 13). See also mahantamaṇḍalāi. | t.t. |
2742 | Maṅgalabhaṭṭa | var. maṅgalabhaṭa; n. the chief court (mūla sabhā) of Patan. It was one of the three chief courts of the Kathmandu Valley, other two being Itā Capalī in Kathmandu and Lāmpāṭī in Bhaktapur (see RRS 17(1-2): 8). The court of maṅgalabhaṭṭa already existed during the Malla period (see Vaidya & Vajrācārya VS 2055: 155). | t.t. |
3060 | Māṇigla | var. Māṇigala, Maṇigala; n. the area defined by the royal palace of Patan. This darbar square, listed as a world heritage site, is commonly known today as Mangal Bazar or, among Newars, as Maṅgaḥ. The term may also be understood as referring to the kingdom of Lalitpur. For a description of Maṇigala, see Śākya VS 2031. | t.t. |
2930 | māno | n. a vessel for ten muṭhīs or one mānā of grains (anna) . | t.t. |