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492 GADAMALA - a plant, alpinia galanga = lengkuas Skt. kudmala, kudmala, bud, an opening of a flower GAHARA - parity of birth, of royal parentage on both sides. anak gahara raja yang gahara - prince's child by a royal mother. Such offspring have precedence over children by commoner-wives, (cf. Mal. Annals 48 on the difference between an anak gahara and an anak gundek) Anak gahara should not be translated "legitimate child". An anak gundek may be fully legitimate under religious law. Hence anak gahara means a prince so born. See ugahari (RJW 317) In Johore gara gara calamities, omen (e.g. earthquake, tornado); in Indonesian gara gara - joking, romping Variant - gara, garah, gehara, Skt. grha house, dwelling, habitation, mansion, wife, the life of a householder, the inhabitants of a house, family GAHARI - not too much or too little, middling. see ugahari Variant - ugahari Skt. Rekasari, exasari GAHARU - a name given to various fragrant woods, a kind of resinous and apparently rotten wood that in burning melts away and emits a perfume much prized in all parts of the East; eaglewood Variant - garu, gahru Skt. Tagaru - not heavy, light, (in prosody) short, having no teacher, one different from a teacher, the fragrant aloe wood and tree boz GAJAH - this word has many meanings but the main meaning is elephant, (1) gajah tunggal solitary royal elephant gajah lalang - tame elephant (2) gajah mina - a whale, walrus, makara (in art) (3) gajah menyusu - kitchen annexe, penthouse (4) figurative = large, badak gajah - the larger rhino 8-Rbag 122 (5) chiak gajah - weaver-bird (whose nest is like a trunk)angotri CC-0. Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri Collection, New Sa