namaskar
(India) The use of the greeting in which one puts one's hands together and bows slightly; greeting with a namaste.
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(India) The use of the greeting in which one puts one's hands together and bows slightly; greeting with a namaste.
To every one I met I made my namaskar, and on entering my village, I made namaskar to a bowri, (a man of low caste.)
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