१८५७ का स्वातन्त्र्य समर (वीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर - अंग्रेजों द्वारा छपने से पूर्व प्रतिबन्धित महाग्रन्थ)

GLOSSARY
CHÂTO—cut down.
CHHATRA—umbrella: the em-
blem of empire.
CHHATRAPATI—emperor.
CHINTZ—a kind of printed cloth.
CHÔBDAR—herald.
CHOUGHADA—drum.
CHOWDHURY—chief.
CHOWDI—a rest-house outside a
village; government officers
sometimes hold their court
there.
CHOWKIDÂR—keeper.
DÂK—post.
DÂNA—gift.
DÂR—a suffix denoting possessor
or owner.
DARÔGA—jail superintendant.
DÊSH—country.
DEWÂN-I-KHAS—special audience
hall.
DEWÂNJI—minister.
DHARMA—sacred duty or religion.
DHARMASHÂLA—place where
charity is dispensed.
DHOTI—a long cloth.
DIN—Faith : the war-cry of the
Mahomedans during the Revo-
lution of 1857.
DÎPÂVALI—the festival of lamps.
DÔAB—land between two rivers.
DÔLI—ambulance.
DORAKDÂR—an officer.
DUPÊTA—long piece of cloth, used
by soldiers round their waist
and sometimes tied into a tur-
ban.
DURBÂR—levee or court.
DUSHSHÂSANA—a wicked charac-
ter in the Mahâbhâratâ.
FAKIR—a Mahomedan Sanyasi
(q.v.), also common beggar.
FERINGHI—a contemptuous term
for an Englishman ; (it origi-
nally meant, a European).
GADI—throne.
GANGA—the Ganges.
GAURI—a Goddess.
GAZAL—an Urdu couplet.
GHANAGARJ—Sounding like thun-
der.
GHARRY—a cab or carriage.
GHAT—the bank of a river,
generally a bathing place ; also
a chain of mountains.
GHÂZI—a Mahomedan who fights
fiercely for his faith and ob-
tains victory.
GHEE—clarified butter.
GULLY—small lane.
GURU—spiritual teacher.
HAR DÊV—God Shiva, who des-
troys evil.
HAR HAR MAHÂDÊV—the war-cry
of the Hindus (lit. Great God
Shiva).
HAKÎM—physician.
HARIDVAR—the place where the
Ganges leaves the mountains
and enters the plains—meta-
phorically, origin or source.
HATHO—retire.
HAWALDÂR—an army officer.
HIND—India.
HINDI—the language of India ;
also, Indian.
HINDUSTHÂN—India.
HINDUSTHANEE—inhabitant of
India.
HINDUSTHANI—Indian ; also, a
language of India.
HIRANYAKASHIPU—a most power-
ful but wicked king of the
Asuras (q.v.).
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