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bandhबन्ध्cl. 9. P. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 37]) badhnā́ti (rarely Ā. badhnīté; cl. 1. P. Ā. bandhati, °te, [MBh.]; cl. 4. P. badhyati, [Hariv.]; Impv. badhāna, [AV.], bandhāna, [MBh.], -badhnīhi, [BhP.], bandha, [R.]; pf. P. babándha, 3. pl. bedhús, [AV.], babandhus, [MBh.]; Ā. bedhé, °dhiré, [AV.], babandhe Gr.; fut. bhantsyati, [Br.] &c., bandhiṣyati, °te, [MBh.]; banddhā Gr.; aor. abhāntsīt Gr.; Prec. badhyāt, [ib.]; inf. banddhum, or bandhitum, [R.], bádhe, [AV.] ind.p. baddhvā́, [AV.], °dhvā́ya, [Br.], -badhya, [ib.]; -bandham, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 41], Sch.), to bind, tie, fix, fasten, chain, fetter, [RV.] &c. &c.; to bind round, put on (Ā.; later also P. ‘on one's self’), [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to catch, take or hold captive, met. = to attach to world or to sin, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kap.]; to fix, direct, fasten, rivet (eyes, ears or mind) on (loc. or inf.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; to arrest, hold back, restrain, suppress, stop, shut, close, [Yājñ.]; [MBh.]; [Kathās.]; to bind a sacrificial victim, offer, sacrifice (with dat. of the deity to whom it is presented), [RV.]; [Br.] : [KātyŚr.]; to punish, chastise, [Hit.]; to join, unite, put together or produce anything in this way, e.g. fold (the hands), clench (the fist), knit or bend (the eyebrows), arrange, assume (a posture), set up (a limit), construct (a dam or a bridge), span, bridge over (a river), conceive or contract (friendship or enmity), compose, construct (a poem or verse), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. ; to form or produce in any way, cause, effect, do, make, bear (fruit), strike (roots), take up (one's abode), [ib.]; to entertain, cherish, show, exhibit, betray (joy, resolution &c.), [ib.] : Pass. badhyáte (°ti, [Hariv.]), to be bound &c. &c.; (esp.) to be bound by the fetters of existence or evil, sin again, [Mn.]; [BhP.]; to be affected by i.e. experience, suffer (instr.), [Pañcat.] : Caus. bandhayati (aor. ababandhat), to cause to bind or catch or capture, imprison, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to cause to be built or constructed, [Ragh.]; [Rājat.]; to cause to be embanked or dammed up, [Rājat.]; to bind together (also bādhayati), [Dhātup. xxxii, 14] : Desid. bibhantsati Gr.: Intens. bābanddhi, bābadhyate, [ib.]
[cf. Zd. band; Gk. πενθερός, πεῖσμα; Lat. foedus, fides; Lit. bèndras; Goth. Angl.Sax. bindan; Germ. binden; Eng. bind.]
bandhūबन्धूin comp. for °dhu.
bandhaबन्धbandhá m. binding, tying, a bond, tie, chain, fetter, [RV.] &c. &c.
a ligature, bandage, [Suśr.]
damming up (a river), [MārkP.]
capture, arrest, imprisonment, custody, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
connection or intercourse with (comp.), [Pañcat.]; [BhP.] (ifc. = connected with, conducive to, [MBh.])
putting together, uniting, contracting, combining, forming, producing, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
joining (the hollowed hands), [Ragh.]
anything deposited (°dhe-√ sthā = to remain deposited), [Campak.]
a deposit, pledge, [Rājat.]
any configuration or position of the body (esp. of the hands and feet), [Ragh.]; [Kum.]
a partic. mode of sexual union (there are said to be 16, 18, 36, or even 84 [L.]), [Caur.]
constructing, building (of a bridge &c.), [MBh.]; [Rājat.]
bridging over (the sea), [Vcar.]
knitting (the brows), [Rājat.]
fixing, directing (mind, eyes, &c.), [Cat.]
assumption, obtainment (of a body), [Ragh.]
(ifc.) conceiving, cherishing, feeling, betraying, [Hariv.]; [Kālid.]
a border, framework, inclosure, receptacle, [L.]
a sinew, tendon, [L.]
the body, [L.]
(in phil.) mundane bondage, attachment to this world, [ŚvetUp.]; [Bhag.] &c. (opp. to mukti, mokṣa, ‘final emancipation’, and regarded in the Sāṃkhya as threefold, viz. prakṛti-, vaikārika-, and dakṣiṇā-b°)
combination of sounds (in rhet.), construction or arrangement of words, [Kāvyād.]; [Pratāp.]
arrangement of a stanza in a partic. shape, [Kpr.]
arrangement of musical sounds, composition, [Śatr.]
a disease which prevents the eyelids from quite closing, [Suśr.]
(ifc. with numerals) a part (cf. pañca-, daśa-b°).
bandhiबन्धिm. N. of an Asura, [L.]
bandhuबन्धुbándhu m. connection, relation, association, [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. with f(U). = belonging to, coming under the head of i.e. ‘being only in name’; cf. kṣatra-, dvija-b° &c.; ‘resembling’, [Bālar. v, 56/57], ‘frequented by’, [ib.] [iii, 20], ‘favourable for’, [ib.] [iv, 87]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 14])
respect, reference (kena bandhunā ‘in what respect?’), [ŚBr.]
kinship, kindred, [Mn. ii, 136]
a kinsman (esp. on the mother's side), relative, kindred, [RV.] &c. &c. (in law, a cognate kinsman in a remote degree, one subsequent in right of inheritance to the Sa-gotra; three kinds are enumerated, personal, paternal and maternal)
a friend (opp. to ripu), [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [BhP.]
a husband, [Ragh.]
a brother, [L.]
Pentapetes Phoenicea, [L.] (= bandhūka)
N. of a metre, [Col.]
(in astrol.) of the fourth mansion, [Var.]
of a Ṛṣi with the patr. Gaupāyana or Laupāyana (author of [RV. v, 24] and [x, 5660]), [RAnukr.]
of Manmatha, [L.]
bandhinबन्धिन्mfn. binding, clasping (cf. dṛḍhabandhinī)
catching (cf. matsya-bandhin)
causing, effecting, producing (cf. phala-b°, rāga-b°)
showing, evincing, betraying (cf. vātsalya-b°).
bandhyaबन्ध्यmfn. to be bound or fettered or imprisoned, [Yājñ.]
to be constructed, [ib.], Sch. (cf. vandhya).
bandhākiबन्धाकिm. a mountain, [L.]
bandhūbhūबन्धूभूbandhū—√ bhū to become a relative of, become like, resemble, [Naiṣ.]
bandhūkaबन्धूकm. Pentapetes Phoenicea (n. its flower), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Suśr.]
Terminalia Tomentosa, [L.]
bandhūkṛबन्धूकृbandhū—√ kṛ to make a friend of, bring into connection with (comp.), [Bālar.]
bandhūliबन्धूलिm. Pentapetes Phoenicea, [L.]
bandhūraबन्धूरmfn. ([Uṇ. i, 42], Sch.) bent, wavy, uneven, [L.]
lovely, charming, [L.]
m. a hole, chasm, [L.]
bandhakīबन्धकी(ī), f. (‘connected’, scil. with many men), an unchaste woman, harlot, courtezan, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
a barren woman, [L.] (cf. bandhyā)
a female elephant, [L.]
bandhakaबन्धकm. a binder, one who is employed in binding (esp. animals), [MBh.]
a catcher (see naga- and pāśa-b°)
a violator, ravisher, [L.]
a band, tie (see pāśu-b°)
a dam, dike (see jala-b°)
a promise, vow, [L.]
exchanging, barter, [W.]
a city, [L.]
(ifc. with numerals) a part (see sa-daśa-b°)
m. or n. (?) pledging or a pledge (see sa-b°)
n. binding, confinement, [W.]
bandhanaबन्धनbándhana mf(I)n. binding, tying, fettering, [RV.] &c. &c.
captivating (with gen. or ifc.; cf. bhāva-b° and [Pāṇ. iv, 4, 96], Sch.)
holding fast, stopping, [MW.]
(ifc.) dependent on [ib.]
bándhana n. the act of binding, tying, fastening, fettering, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
bándhana n. (also f(I). , [L.]) a bond, tie (also fig.), rope, cord, tether, [ŚBr.] &c. &c. (ifc. with f(A). = bound to or fettered by)
bándhana n. binding on or round, clasping, [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.]
binding up, bandaging, a bandage, [Suśr.]
catching, capturing, confining, detention, custody, imprisonment or a prison, [Mn.]; [Kathās.]; [Pur.]
building, construction, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
embanking or an embankment, [ib.]
bridging over, [Hit.]
alloying (of metals), [Bhpr.]
joining, junction, connection, coherence, [RV.]; [MBh.]
fixing upon, directing towards (loc.), [L.]
checking, suppressing, [Amar.]
(in phil.) mundane bondage (opp. to final liberation)
hurting, killing, [L.]
a stalk, stem, peduncle (of a flower), [RV.] &c. &c.
a sinew, muscle, [L.]
bandhitaबन्धितmfn. (fr. Caus.) caused to be bound (śatena, ‘imprisoned for a hundred pieces of money’), [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 24], Sch.
bandhukāबन्धुकाf. g. prekṣādi
bandhukīबन्धुकीf. an unchaste woman, [L.] (cf. bandhakī).
bandhukaबन्धुकm. Pentapetes Phoenicea, [L.]
a bastard, [L.] (cf. bandhula)
bandhulaबन्धुलmfn. inclined, bent, depressed, [L.]
lovely, charming, [L.]
m. a bastard, [Mṛcch.]
Pentapetes Phoenicea, [L.]
N. of a Ṛṣi, [Pravar.]
bandhurāबन्धुराf. a harlot, [L.]
N. of a procuress, [Hāsy.]
(pl.) the meal of parched corn, [L.]
bandhuraबन्धुरmf(A)n. ([Uṇ. i, 42], Sch.; cf. [Vām. v, 2, 42]) bent, inclined, [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.]
curved, rounded, pleasant, beautiful, charming, [Inscr.]; [Kālid.]; [Caurap.]
(ifc.) adorned with, [Kād.]
undulating, uneven, [L.]
deaf, [L.] (cf. badhira)
injurious, mischievous, [W.]
m. (only [L.]) a bird
a goose
Ardea Nivea
Pentapetes Phoenicea
Embelia Ribes
a partic. bulbous plant growing on the Hima-vat mountain, [L.]
oil-cake
the vulva, [L.]
n. a diadem, crest, [L.]
bándhura n. (for 1. See above) = vandhura, [VS.]; [AV.]; [MBh. (B.)]
bandhutāबन्धुताbandhú—tā (°dhú-), f. connection, relation, kinship, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]
relations, kinsfolk, [Mālatīm.]
bandhitraबन्धित्रn. (!) the god of love, love, [L.] (cf. vadhitra)
a spot, mole, [L.]
bandhukṛtबन्धुकृत्bandhu—kṛt See á-bandhukṛt.
bandhukinबन्धुकिन्bandhu°kin mfn. g. prekṣādi.
bandhumatबन्धुमत्bándhu—mat (bándhu-), mfn. having relations, [RV.] &c. &c.
surrounded by relations, [Ragh.]
bándhu—mat m. N. of a king, [Pur.]
of another man, [Cat.]
bandhupṛchबन्धुपृछ्bandhu—pṛ́ch mfn. seeking or caring for relations, [RV. iii, 54, 16] (cf. pṛṣṭa-bandhu).
bandhuraḥबन्धुरःbandhúraḥ (pl. of bandhur?), [AV. iii, 9, 3].
bandhutvaबन्धुत्वbandhu—tva n. relationship, affinity, [R.]
bandhuvatबन्धुवत्bandhu—vat mfn. having relations, [MW.]
bandhu—vat ind. like a relations, [Mn.]
bandhveṣaबन्ध्वेषbandhv-eṣá m. inquiring after kindred, [RV.]
bandhūkṛtaबन्धूकृतbandhū—kṛta mfn. made a friend, [Sāh.]
bandhadeśaबन्धदेशbandha—deśa m. N. of a country, [Cat.]
bandhamayaबन्धमयbandha—maya mf(I)n. consisting of bonds, serving for or being like a bond, [MW.]
bandhanīyaबन्धनीयmfn. to be (or being) bound or tied, [Kathās.]; [Śak.], Sch.
to be captured or taken prisoner, [Inscr.]
to be embanked, [R.] (Sch. ‘m. = setu, embankment’).
bandhanikaबन्धनिकm. a gaoler, turnkey, [Gaut.]; [Viṣṇ.]
bandhapāśaबन्धपाशbandha—pāśá m. a bond, fetter, [AV.]
bandhayitṛबन्धयितृm. (fr. Caus.) one who binds or ties up, a binder, [Kull.] on [Mn. viii, 342.]
bandhubhāvaबन्धुभावbandhu—bhāva m. relationship, friendship, [Kathās.]
bandhuśokaबन्धुशोकbandhu—śoka m. mourning for a relative, [Bcar.]
bandhuhīnaबन्धुहीनbandhu—hīna mfn. destitute of relations, friendless, [W.]
bandhujīvaबन्धुजीवbandhu—jīva m. ‘living in groups’, Pentapetes Phoenicea (a plant with a red flower which opens at midday and withers away the next morning)
bandhu—jīva n. its flower, [Kāv.]; [Suśr.]
bandhujanaबन्धुजनbandhu—jana m. a kinsman, friend, [Bhartṛ.]
kinsfolk, relations, [MBh.]; [R.]
bandhukāmaबन्धुकामbandhu—kāma mfn. loving relations or friends, [MBh.]
bandhukṣitबन्धुक्षित्bandhu—kṣít mfn. dwelling among relations, [RV.]
bandhumatīबन्धुमतीbándhu—matī (atī), f. N. of sev. women, [Daś.]; [Kathās.]
of a town, [Divyāv.]
bandhupālaबन्धुपालbandhu—pāla m. ‘kindred-protector’, N. of a man, [Daś.]
bandhupatiबन्धुपतिbandhu—pati m. lord of kindred or relations g. aśvapaty-ādi.
bandhurīyaबन्धुरीयw.r. for bandhur eṣa, [MBh. vi, 2659.]
bandhuritaबन्धुरितmfn. inclined, bent, [Sāh.]
curved, [Bālar.]
bandhyāśvaबन्ध्याश्वprob. w.r. for vadhryaśva, q.v.
bandhakampaबन्धकम्पbandha—kampa m. N. of a poet, [Cat.]
bandhakartṛबन्धकर्तृbandha—kartṛ m. a binder, fetterer, restrainer (said of Śiva), [MBh.]
bandhakatvaबन्धकत्वbandhaka—tva n. the being a fetter, [Sāṃkhyak.], Sch.
bandhamudrāबन्धमुद्राbandha—mudrā f. the impression or mark of fetters, [ib.]
bandhanasthaबन्धनस्थbandhana—stha mfn. being in prison or captivity, a captive, prisoner, [Kālid.]; [ŚārṅgP.]
bandhanṛtyaबन्धनृत्यbandha—nṛtya n. (in music) a kind of dance, [Saṃgīt.]
bandhudagdhaबन्धुदग्धbandhu—dagdha mfn. ‘cursed by relations’, an abandoned wretch (= hataka), [L.]
bandhudattāबन्धुदत्ताbandhu—dattā f. N. of a woman, [Kathās.]
bandhudattaबन्धुदत्तbandhu—datta mfn. ‘given by relations’, [Yājñ.]
bandhu—datta m. N. of a man, [W.]
bandhujīvinबन्धुजीविन्bandhu—jīvin m. a kind of ruby, [L.]
bandhukṛtyaबन्धुकृत्यbandhu—kṛtya n. the duty of a kinsman, friendly service, [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]
bandhumitraबन्धुमित्रbandhu—mitra m. ‘friend of relations’, N. of a man, [Kathās.]
bandhuprītiबन्धुप्रीतिbandhu—prīti f. love of friends or relations, [Megh.]
bandhuprabhaबन्धुप्रभbandhu—prabha m. N. of a Vidyā-dhara, [Kathās.]
bandhupriyaबन्धुप्रियbandhu—priya mfn. dear to friends or relations, [MBh.]
bandhuvargaबन्धुवर्गbandhu—varga m. the whole body of relations, kindred, [MW.]
bandhakaumudīबन्धकौमुदीbandha—kaumudī f. N. of a poem and a wk. on metrics.
bandhakaraṇaबन्धकरणbandha—karaṇa n. binding, fettering, holding back (also by magic), [Kathās.]
bandhamocinīबन्धमोचिनीbandha—mocanikā or bandha—mocinī, f. ‘releasing from bonds’, N. of a Yoginī, [Kathās.]
bandhanāgāraबन्धनागारn. = °na-veśman, [Mṛcch.]
bandhanālayaबन्धनालयm. = °na-veśman, [L.]
bandhastambhaबन्धस्तम्भbandha—stambha m. ‘binding-post’, the post to which an elephant is tied, [L.]
bandhatantraबन्धतन्त्रbandha—tantra n. a complete army (possessing the 4 divisions of chariots, elephants, horse, and foot), [W.]
bandhubhāṣitaबन्धुभाषितbandhu—bhāṣita n. the talk or speech of relations, [MW.]
bandhudāyādaबन्धुदायादbandhu—dāyāda m. kinsman and heir, [Mn. ix, 158]
bandhu—dāyāda mfn. entitled to inheritance by relationship, [MBh.]
bandhujīvakaबन्धुजीवकbandhu—jīvaka m. = prec. m., [Suśr.]
N. of a Cakra-vartin, [Kathās.]
bandhupālitaबन्धुपालितbandhu—pālita m. ‘kindred-protected’, N. of a prince, [VP.]
bandhuvarmanबन्धुवर्मन्bandhu—varman m. N. of a prince, [Inscr.]
bandhūkapuṣpaबन्धूकपुष्पbandhūka—puṣpa n. the flower of Pentapetes Phoenicea (-rajas n. its pollen), [Ṛtus.]
Terminalia Tomentosa, [L.]
bandhanakārinबन्धनकारिन्bandhana—kārin mfn. (ifc.) fettering i.e. clasping, embracing (°ri-tā f.), [Daś.]
bandhanarajjuबन्धनरज्जुbandhana—rajju f. a rope or string for tying, [MW.]
bandhanasthānaबन्धनस्थानbandhana—sthāna n. ‘place for fastening’, a stall, stable, [L.]
bandhapāruṣyaबन्धपारुष्यbandha—pāruṣya n. forced construction of words, [Pratāp.]
bandhulānvayaबन्धुलान्वयm. he posterity of Bandhula, [MW.]
bandhuragātrīबन्धुरगात्रीbandhura—gātrī f. (a woman) who has lovely or rounded limbs, [Ragh.]
bandhuvañcakaबन्धुवञ्चकbandhu—vañcaka m. ‘deceiver of relations’, N. of a Vidūṣaka, [Dhūrtas.]
bandhamocanikāबन्धमोचनिकाbandha—mocanikā or bandha—mocinī, f. ‘releasing from bonds’, N. of a Yoginī, [Kathās.]
bandhanādhikāraबन्धनाधिकारm. N. of 3rd ch. of 1st part of the Rasendra-kalpa-druma (q.v.)
bandhanagranthiबन्धनग्रन्थिbandhana—granthi m. a noose, rope for tying cattle, [L.]
bandhanakāritāबन्धनकारिताbandhana—kāri-tā f.
bandhanapālakaबन्धनपालकbandhana—pālaka m. a gaol-keeper, [L.]
bandhanaveśmanबन्धनवेश्मन्bandhana—veśman n. ‘house of bondage’, a prison, [L.]
bandhumatīyakaबन्धुमतीयकbándhu—ma°tīyaka mfn. belonging to this town, [ib.]
bandhupuṣpamālaबन्धुपुष्पमालbandhu—puṣpa-māla mfn. wearing a chaplet of Bandhu flowers, [MW.]
bandhatrayavidhānaबन्धत्रयविधानbandha—traya-vidhāna n. N. of wk.
bandhujīvābhitāmraबन्धुजीवाभिताम्रbandhu—jī°vābhitāmra mfn. deep-red like the blossom of Pentapetes Phoenicea [Hariv.]
bandhūkapuṣparajasबन्धूकपुष्परजस्bandhūka—puṣpa—rajas n., pollen of the flower of Pentapetes Phoenicea