بن

land of wild flowers (usually of the tulsī, the kundā, the mandār, the pārijāt, and the saroruhāor lotus), reaching down to the feet; the chaplet worn by Kr̤ishṇa:—ban-mālī, adj. & s.m. Having or wearing a ban-māl; one who wears a ban-māl; an epithet of Kr̤ishṇa:—banmānus (S. vana+mānusha), s.m. Wild man of the woods; the ourang-outang; the Lemur tardigradus:—ban majhāṛnā, v.n. To traverse the forest, etc.=ban-jhāṛnā, q.v.:—ban-vās, s.m.=ban-bās, q.v.:—banotsarg (S. vana+utsarga), s.m. Name of a ceremony (much resembling a marriage ceremony) performed in honour of a newly-planted orchard, and without which it is not proper to partake of its fruit:—ban-yuwati, s.f. A female residing in a forest or jungle.