road ; manner. Rāh-āvard, a present brought by one who has been on a journey. Rāh bāndhnā, to refuse admittance, to stop one's progress. Rāh batānā, to discharge, dismiss ; to guide. Rāh-bar, m. a guide, conductor. Rāh-barī, f. guidance. Rāh par ānā, to find the road which had been lost ; to mend one's manners. rāh paṛnā, to establish mutual confidence. rāh chhoṛnā, to gie way. rāh-kharch, charges of the road, travelling expenses. rāh-dār, m. a collector of duties (on the road). rāh dārī, f. collection of duties (on roads). rāh dikhānā, a. to make one wait for. rāh dekhnā or taknā, to expect, to wait for. rāh denā, to give one access. rāh ḍālnā, to establish a custom. rāh rāh chalnā, to continue in one's usual practice or mode of conduct, rāh rakhnā, to keep up an intercourse. rāh-rav or -rau, a traveller, a wayfarer. rāh rawish, f. manners, habits, customs, rāhzan, m. a highwayman. rāh-zanī, f. highway robbery. rāh-sir, just, right. rāh kāṭnā, to travel a road ; to quit a path or take a short cut. rāh karnā, to contract frienship rāh khoṭī karnī, to linger on the road. rāh guzar, m. road, way ; a traveller. rāhgīr, m. a traveller, wayfarer. rāh lagnā to follow one's own devices. rāh lenā, n. to go, to depart. rāh-mār, a highway robber. rāh mārnā, a. to waylay, to rob ; to lay one under restraint, to ruin one's prospects in life. rāh marnā, thee trace of a path being effaced. rāh nāpnā, to walk about idly, to employ one's self unprofitably. rāh-nāma, a road-book. rāh nikālnā, to devise a new mode of conduct. rāh-numā, m. a conductor, guide, leader. rāh-numā,ī, f. leading. rāh-wār, ambling, a pace (in horsemanship), a gait generally taught to ṭāngans. rāhwārī, f. ambling (a horse). p.
an authorized branch of revenue, arising from duties collected from travellers by the officers of government stationed on the high roads for the protection of passengers. It was formerly levied on goods passing and repassing the public roads. In Bahar there were, in many distrcits, chaukīs or stationary guards, for the protection of the roads, known by the name of chaukī rāhdārī, on account of which revenue was collected and paid into the niẓāmat ; in Dakhant, the term rāh-dārī denotes a guide ; a passport, a warrant, a permit. rāh-dārī kī chiṭṭhī, a passport, a permit. p.