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वषर् varsha, vulg. varsh, and H. वरषwarashor warsh, s.m. Rain, raining; a shower of rain; sprinkling, effusion;—the rainy season;—a cloud;—a year (see the pop. form baras);—a division of the earth or known world (nine such divisions are enumerated, viz. Kuru, Hiraṇmay, Ramyak, Ilāvrit, Hari, Ketu-mālā, Bhadrāśva, Kinnar, and Bhārat); India (=Bhārat-varsh, syn. Jambudvīp):—varshāśan (˚sha+aś˚), s.m. Subsistence for a year; annual allowance or salary:—varshāvasān (˚sha+av˚), s.m. 'The close of the rains,' the autumnal season, autumn:—varshāyut (˚sha+ay˚), s.m. A period of ten thousand years:—varsh-parvat, s.m. One of the mountainous ranges supposed to separate the various Varshasor divisions of the globe from each other (six ranges are enumerated from north to south, viz. Himavat, Hem-kūṭ, Nishadh, Nīl, Śvet, and Śring-vān; Meru constitutes a seventh: other names are sometimes given to these ranges):—varsh-din, vulg. baras-din, s.m. The period of a year:—varsh-din-tak, adv. For the period of a year, for a whole year:—varsh-sahasra, s.m. A period of a thousand years:—varsh-śat, s.m. A hundred years, a century.