GAO. HIND., ZEND. A cow. In Hinduism, the Gao or cow is symbolic of Prit-ha, the earth. Gao has numerous combinations. Gao-char or Gao-charhai, pasture land kept free from cultiva tion, as the grazing ground of the village. Gao dana or Godana, the gift of a cow to a Brahman or to a bridegroom or at a religious ceremony. Gao-kos is the dist;,nce that is measured by the audibleness of the bellowing of a cow from one extremity to another.
Gaola or Goala, contraction from Gopala, a coNvherd (perhaps from Gala, milk). Gaola the milkman race ; they have considerable herds of cattle.
Gao-lobh, swearing while holding a cow's tail. Gao-than, a village site.
Gao-ran grazing ground.
Gao - loclan, gall stones extracted from the gall bladders of dead cows, much used in medicine, also in charms, and in painting.—Gen. Med. Top. p. 136 ; Tr. of Hind. h. p. 40.
GAO. limn. An ordeal. See Divination. GAOHATTY, a town in Assam, the ancient Kasawati. See Gowhatty;
Ci)31; a Hindi word meaning a village, is appl5R. lat. hamlets and townships in every part of In,78° I) which words of Hindi origin have reachectnrIt is written in the English Gam, Ganw, and Gaum, as Mulligaum. It is a vernacular term from the Sanskrit Gram or Gramma, Grammu or Gramam, Gramamu, and preserved and used in the word Grammadeva, the village deity, and used with inflections in Tamil, Malealam, Telugu, and aupposed to be represented in the Chinese Heong and Singhalese Gluna.
Gaon-Intrah, in Bengal, a village authority, Gaon-kari, a freeman of a village, either free from being of the original settlers, or having pur chased it by feo, by some useful act, as digging a well, repairing a wall, building a temple.
Gaon Korawa, a section of tho Korawa race. See Korawa.
Ga'oora, Mann., patel.