Cautha, Ca奴tha: 3 definitions
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Marathi-English dictionary
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryca奴tha (啶氞啶�).鈥�&c. See under cau.
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cautha (啶氞啶�).鈥攆 (肠补迟耻谤迟丑墨 S) The fourth lunar day. cauth墨- c膩 candra p膩ha峁嚹撫箖 (To see the fourth-day-moon.) To be visited with some accusation or affliction. (The moon of this date, if looked upon or casually seen, brings calamity.) 2 C In weighing butter. A weight of forty-eight 艣颈惫补谤腻墨. 3 (For 肠补耻迟丑腻墨) An assignment equal, nominally, to one-fourth of the 迟补苍补办丑腻, but, generally, to about one-fourth of the Government-collections, obtained from the Muhammadan territories by the Mara峁環as. The Mara峁環as collected it, and divided it as follows. One-fourth, or twenty-five per cent., was appropriated by the head of the Mara峁環a state, and was called 谤腻箩补产腻产补迟墨; from the remainder, termed 尘艒办腻蝉腻, there was deducted a sum equal to six per cent. (蝉腻丑艒迟谤腻) of the whole cautha, and this was assigned to the pantasaciva. The remainder, equal to sixty-nine per cent. of the cautha, termed ainam艒- k膩s膩, was partitioned, on certain conditions, among the Sirdars. In some districts there was, besides the 蝉腻丑艒迟谤腻 a sum equal to three per cent. on the whole cautha deducted from the 尘艒办腻蝉腻, and named 苍腻岣峚驳补耻峁囜笉腻. Very numerous subdivisions of the cautha have since been made.
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cauth膩 (啶氞啶ムぞ).鈥攁 (caturtha S) Fourth.
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cauth膩 (啶氞啶ムぞ).鈥攎 A measure in Khandesh. See 肠艒迟丑补惫腻 & 岣嵟嶀阜腻.
: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishcautha (啶氞啶�).鈥�f The fourth lunar day. One-fourth of government-collections obtained by Marathas from other territories cauth墨c膩 candra p膩ha峁嚹撫箖 To be visited with some accusation or affliction.
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cauth膩 (啶氞啶ムぞ).鈥�a Fourth.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Hindi dictionary
: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary1) Cautha (啶氞啶�) [Also spelled chauth]:鈥�(nf) the fourth day of the lunar fortnight; a cess (levied by the Marathas on other neighbouring states); -[k膩 c膩峁僤a] lit. the moon of the fourth—an object to be shunned (as it is said to result in slanderous accusations being levelled against one who happens to see it).
2) Cauth膩 (啶氞啶ムぞ) [Also spelled chautha]:鈥�(a) the fourth (in succession); (nm) (the rituals observed on) the fourth day of (somebody鈥檚) death; ~[pana] the old age, the last phase of life (that of a [蝉补峁僴测腻蝉墨]—an anchorite).
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Starts with: Cauthabharani, Cauthai, Cauthai-ammala, Cauthaiamala, Cauthakara, Cauthala, Cauthara, Cauthayi.
Full-text (+1): Sankashti Cautha, Babati, Dagadi Cautha, Jahagiraamala, Rajababati, Nadagamvada, Svarajya, Angari Caturthi, Cauthi, Cothava, Cauta, Chauthi, Catakora Catakara, Mokasa, Chautha, Sankashtacaturthi, Sankashti, Sahotra, Chauth, Aina.
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