índu m. (√ und, [Uṇ. i, 13]; probably fr. ind = √ und, ‘to drop’ [see p. 165, col. 3, and cf. índra]; perhaps connected with bindu, which last is unknown in the Ṛg-veda, [BRD.]), Ved. a drop (especially of Soma), Soma, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]
a bright drop, a spark, [TS.]
the moon
m. pl. (avas) the moons i.e. the periodic changes of the moon
time of moonlight, night, [RV.]; [MBh.]; [Śak.]; [Megh.] &c.
camphor, [Bhpr.]
the point on a die, [AV. vii, 109, 6]
N. of Vāstoṣpati, [RV. vii, 54, 2]
a symbolic expression for the number ‘one’
designation of the Anusvāra
a coin, [L.] (In the Brāhmaṇas, is used only for the moon; but the connexion between the meanings ‘Soma juice’ and ‘moon’ in the word has led to the same two ideas being transferred in classical Sanskṛt to the word soma, although the latter has properly only the sense ‘Soma juice’.)
índu—mat (índu°), m. (in liturgical language) N. of Agni (because in the verses in which he is addressed the word indu occurs), [VS. xxvi, 13]; [ŚBr.]
indu—vrata n. a religious observance depending on the age of the moon (diminishing the quantity of food by a certain portion daily, for a fortnight or a month, &c.), [MBh.] (cf. cāndrāyaṇa.)