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namaskar

n. (context India English) The use of the greeting in which you put your hands together and then bow slightly; greeting with a namaste. (from 19th c.)

Usage examples of "namaskar".

He bumped into a stark-naked long-bearded fakir and recoiled, doing a respectful namaskar as the sky-clad holy man continued playing his ektara, his wooden bow drawing a piercing monotone from the single-stringed instrument as he rolled his eyes back into his skull, lost in his ecstatic bhakti.