अन्धों की लाठी andhō̃ kī lāṭhī

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

How to read the transliteration

This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919On this site
cch
śśh
ṣṣh
r̥r̥i

A few reading pointers:

  • ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
  • ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
  • A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

Hindi · g.n. · f.

Earlier definition

Definition

'The blind's stick'; the only support for helpless people.
(Bābā) We are the sticks for the blind by showing the way to others through our enlightened knowledge.

Usual translation

  1. stick for the blind

Origin of the definition

अंधा andhā andha: (a and nm) blind; irrational, unenlightened; unthinking. अंधे की लकड़ी/लाठी a helpless man's only support.

अंधों की लाठी. The only supporter for the helpless.

का kā (hindi)

का denotes one of the under-mentioned relations between a Noun or a Pronoun and another Noun which follows the former. If the Noun that follows is Feminine (singular or plural), का changes to की; if it is Masculine and Plural, or has an oblique form, का changes to के.

  • Possession and relationship.
  • Material or composition.
  • Worth and measure (space or time).
  • Source, origin, cause.
  • Subject (doer of an act).
  • Object (of an activity).
  • Part of a whole.
  • Purpose.
  • Characteristic.
    (A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)

लाठी lāṭhī (hindi)

A staff, stick, club, cudgel, bludgeon.
Crutch.

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Murlis of the day (and original sakar)

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Created
Saturday 28 August 2021
Updated
Thursday 17 April 2025