باليدن bālīdan P inf. or verb. noun, To grow, growing.

باي بڙنگ bāʼe biṛang विडंग S̱. s. m. Name of a medicinal seed.

بهلاون bhilāwan S̱. (भल्लातक) s. m. A nut used for marking clothes, &c. (Semicarpus anacardium).

بهيڙي bheṛī भेडी S̱. s. f. An ewe.

بهمي bhamī भ्रमि S̱. s. f. Revolution, whirling, going round, wandering.

بيد वेद bed S or veda, s. m. A Veda, or the Ve- das in the aggregate. The original Veda is be- lieved by the Hindūs to have been revealed by Brahmā, and to have been preserved by tra- dition until it was arranged in its present order by a sage, who thence obtained the surname of Vyāsa or Vedavyāsa, that is, compiler of the Vedas. He distributed the Indian scripture into four parts, which are severally entitled ऋग् Rig, यजुष् Yajush̤, साम Sāma, and अथर्व Atharva; and each of them bears the common name of Veda.

بوني bonī S̱. (from بونا) s. f. The season of sowing.

بيٿهنا baiṭhnā S̱. (from उपविष्ट Seated) v. n. 1. To sit, to be unemployed or idle. 2. To ride (on a horse). 3. To visit a person in grief for the purpose of condolence. 4. To sit in dharnā.

برجا bar-jā P In place; accurate, right, true.

بيڙا bīṛā S̱. s. m. 1. The same as s̱. بيرا bīrā, q. v. 2. A thong tied to the hilt of a sword by which it is retained in the scabbard, a sword knot. بيڙااٿهانا bīṛā uṭhānā, v. a. To undertake a bu- siness. بيڙاڐالنا bīṛā ḍālnā, To propose a pre- mium for the performance of a task. (These expressions originate in a custom that prevailed of throwing a bīṛā of betel into the midst of an assembly, in token of proposal to any person to undertake some difficult affair then requisite to be performed; and, the person who took up the betel bound himself to perform the business in question).