s. m. (M.), ) In the parts of the country which are submerged by the annual rising of the river, one or more manhás are erected outside every house, into which the people retire when washed out of their houses by the rising flood, and on which they live night and day till it subsides:—manháṇ te chaṛhá pauṛiáṇ kap ghinde. Having mounted his manháṇ he cuts the ladder.—Prov.