Murli Dictionary

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.
About this dictionary

The construction of this dictionary is based on common definitions in Hindi and English. Many words or expressions are redefined or even created by Baba. Hence the importance of knowing these definitions specific to this knowledge. These redefinitions and new definitions can be found in the murli. It is easy to forget some of them. This is therefore a work in progress and subject to change at any time.

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Hindi words and expressions

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लकीर lakīr (hindi)

A line, lineament.
A streak, stripe.

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लकड़ा lakṛā (hindi)

Beam, log, block, bar, timber, wood.

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लकड़ी lakṛī (hindi)

A stick, staff.
Wood, timber.
Fire-wood.

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लक्षण lakṣhaṇ (sanskrit)

A symptom.
Indication.
Trait, characteristic feature, characteristic mark.
(Bābā) The symptoms of the soul which show progress towards his/her goal.

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लक्ष्मण lakṣhmaṇ (sanskrit)

A younger brother of Rām in the ancient Indian epic of Rāmāyaṇ.

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लक्ष्मी lakṣhmī (sanskrit)

(Hinduism) The goddess of wealth and spouse of Lord Vishṉū.
Prosperity, fortune.
Used deferentially for a woman as symbolising prosperity.
(Bābā) The goddess empress of the Golden Age and wife of the god emperor Nārāyaṇ. The couple is symbolized by Vishṉū who sustains the world through the cycle, especially in the golden and silver ages.

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लक्ष्मी-नारायण lakṣhmī-nārāyaṇ (sanskrit)

Lakṣmī and Nārāyaṇ.

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लक्ष्मी-पूजन lakṣhmī-pūjan (sanskrit)

Name of a festival held on the fifteenth day of the dark half of the month Kārttik, at the end of the Dīvālī festival.
Worship of Lakṣmī by the bridegroom and bride after the bride has been brought to her father-in-law's house.

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लक्ष्य lakṣhya (sanskrit)

The aim, object, objective, target, goal.
Indicated, implied.

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लक्ष्य-दाता lakṣhya-dātā (sanskrit)

(The one) who gives a goal.

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लालच lālach (hindi)

Greed, greediness, covetousness, avarice.
Allurement, temptation.

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ललकार lalkār (hindi)

Challenge, shout, call (as of encouragement).

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ललकारना lalkārnā (hindi)

To challenge, issue a challenge, hold out a challenge, to halloo, to throw/fling down the gauntlet/glove.

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लम्बा lambā (hindi)

Long, lengthy, tall.

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लम्बा-चौड़ा lambā-chauṛā (hindi)

Long and wide, spacious, roomy, capacious, vast.

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लम्बाई lambāī (hindi)

Length.
Height.

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लंगर laṅgar (hindi)

An anchor.
A public kitchen, alms-house; food distributed to the needy.
The langar refers to the free, vegetarian food provided in Sikh Gurudwaras.

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लंगड़ा laṅgṛā (hindi)

Lame, limping.
A lame man, a cripple.

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लंगड़ाता laṅgṛātā (hindi)

Limping, walking lame.

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लंका laṅkā (sanskrit)

Ceylon, Sri Lanka : the island in the Indian ocean where Rāvaṇ, the demon king and villain of the ancient epic Rāmāyaṇ, ruled.
(Bābā) The kingdom of Rāvaṇ which is the whole world where everyone is sinners. (in the Iron Age)

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लापरवाह lāparvāh (hindi)

Careless, negligent, heedless, inattentive.

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लड़ laṛ (hindi)

A string (of pearls).
Row, line, series, chain.

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लड़ाई laṛāī (hindi)

Fight, war, battle, quarrel, encounter, clash, enmity.

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लड़ी laṛī (hindi)

A string (as of pearls, or flowers).
Row, line, series; chain (of hills).

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लड़ना laṛnā (hindi)

To quarrel, to fight, to struggle, to collide, to clash, to contend, to wrestle, to combat.

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लड़ना-झगड़ना laṛnā-jhagaṛnā (hindi)

To pick up quarrels, to have altercation, quarrelling, altercation.

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लाश لاش lāśh (persan)

A dead body, a corpse; a carcass.

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लश्कर لشکر laśhkar (persan)

An army, a host, a military force.
A camp.
An encampment (the word, in India, is sometimes used with especial reference to Sindia's army).

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लटकना laṭaknā (hindi)

To hang, to depend.
To hang loosely, to dangle, to swing.
To be suspended, to be swung.
To be kept waiting or in suspense.
To be put off, be postponed.

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लथेड़ना lathēṛnā (hindi)

To drag, to draggle, to cause to trail behind on the ground.
To rebuke roundly.