| Notes | var. ḍhākryā; n. 1) a porter; one who carries goods on his back in a ḍhākara, a large hand-woven conical basket of bamboo widely popular in hill regions. 2) a former state employee (cf. M.R. Pant 2002: 132 ), "off-role, out of government employment" (Whelpton 1991: 282). 3) an unemployed person. |
