playful cooking by young girls in small utensils while playing

do something stealthily

a small earthen cup or jar, a small earthen (saucer-shaped) vessel, a cup (for cupping); a crucible

offer cups full of milk, etc. to god or goddess, to fill earthen vessel with rice on Diwali

to cup

be ruined, be destroyed, be unlucky

curse you!

walls around the four sides of a field

get dirtied or rusted

rice and pulse, daily bread, plain fare

a type of bird, usually a foot long, which comes to northwest India in winter, sandgrouse

jet-black

boiled rice

picture, shape

embankment

alluvium

mound, hillock, rising ground

plain boiled rice

a chance meeting, encounter, visit

accept sacrifice, kill

bribe

something very cheap and a distant relative do not have any value

about twelve feet long tree with white flowers and black round flat fruit, used as medicine, Clerodendron infortunatum

kind, sort, variety, class, way, order, manner, mode, method