| tantu | तन्तु | tántu m. a thread, cord, string, line, wire, warp (of a web), filament, fibre, [RV.] &c. |
| a cobweb, [W.] |
| a succession of sacrificial performances, [BhP.] |
| any one propagating his family in regular succession, [KātyŚr. iii]; [Āp.]; [TUp.]; [MBh.] (cf. kula-) &c. |
| a line of descendants, [AitBr. vii, 17] |
| any continuity (as of thirst or hope), [MBh. xii, 7877]; [Mālatīm.] |
| N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.] |
| = -nāga, [L.] |
| (g. gargādi) N. of a man, [Pravar. iv, 1] |
| cf. kāṣṭha-, vara-, saptá-. |
| tantubha | तन्तुभ | tantu—bha m. ‘threadlike’, Sinapis dichotoma, [L.] |
| a calf, [L.] |
| tantuṇa | तन्तुण | m. = °tu-nāga, [L.] |
| tantukī | तन्तुकी | f. a vein, [L.] |
| tantuka | तन्तुक | ifc. a thread, rope, [Bhartṛ. i, 95] |
| m. a kind of serpent, [Suśr.] |
| the plant °tu-bha, [L.], Sch. |
| tantula | तन्तुल | mfn. roping (as slime), [Bhpr. vii, 1, 66] |
| n. = °tura, the fibrous root of a lotus, [L.] |
| tantura | तन्तुर | n. the fibrous root of a lotus, [L.] |
| m. pl. N. of a family, [Pravar. vii, 2] (v.l. °nnara). |
| tantumat | तन्तुमत् | tantu—mat mfn. forming threads, ‘roping’ (as a liquid), [Car. vi f.] |
| (a- neg.), [Suśr. iii] |
| ‘uninterrupted like a thread’ (said of an Agni), [ĀpŚr. ix, 8, 5]; [ŚāṅkhGṛ. v, 4, 2]; [AV.]; [Prāyaśc. ii, 1] |
| tantutva | तन्तुत्व | tantu—tva n. the consisting of threads, [Sarvad. xi, 118.] |
| tantubhūta | तन्तुभूत | tantu—bhūta mfn. being the propagator of a family, [MBh. iii, 258, 11.] |
| tantuśālā | तन्तुशाला | tantu—śālā f. = -vāya-ś°, [L.] |
| tantujāla | तन्तुजाल | tantu—jāla See kṛmi-. |
| tantukīṭa | तन्तुकीट | tantu—kīṭa m. a silk-worm, [L.] |
| tantumatī | तन्तुमती | tantu—matī f. an oblation offered to that Agni, [ĀpŚr. ix, 8, 5], Sch. |
| N. of Murāri's mother,[Anargh. i, 7/8]. |
| tantunābha | तन्तुनाभ | tantu—nābha m. ‘emitting threads from its navel’, a spider, [Bādar. ii, 1, 25], Sch. |
| tantunāga | तन्तुनाग | tantu—nāga m. a shark, [L.] |
| tantusāra | तन्तुसार | tantu—sāra m. ‘having a fibrous pith’, the betel-nut tree, [L.] |
| tantuvāna | तन्तुवान | tantu—vāna n. weaving, [Nyāyam. vii, 3, 21], Sch. |
| tantuvāpa | तन्तुवाप | tantu—vāpa for -vāya, [L.] |
| tantuvāya | तन्तुवाय | tantu—vāya m. ([Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 2] and [vi, 2, 76]) a weaver, [Mn. viii, 397]; [VarBṛS.]; [VarBṛ.] (cf. rajaka-) |
| a spider, [Pāṇ. vi, 2, 77], [Kāś.] |
| weaving, [L.] |
| tantukārya | तन्तुकार्य | tantu—kārya n. ‘thread-work’, a web, [SarvUp.] |
| tantukāṣṭha | तन्तुकाष्ठ | tantu—kāṣṭha n. ‘piece of fibrous wood’, a weaver's brush, [L.] |
| tantukriyā | तन्तुक्रिया | tantu—kriyā f. spinning work, [Hār.] on [ĀpGṛ. x, 10.] |
| tantumadhya | तन्तुमध्य | tantu—madhya mf(A)n. having a thread-like waist, [Priy. iv, 2.] |
| tantuvādya | तन्तुवाद्य | tantu—vādya n. a stringed instrument, [W.] |
| tantukaraṇa | तन्तुकरण | tantu—karaṇa n. spinning, [Sud.] on [ĀpGṛ. viii, 12.] |
| tantukarttṛ | तन्तुकर्त्तृ | tantu—karttṛ m. ‘propagating the succession of a family (kula-)’ = kula-tantu (q.v.), [MBh. viii, 3393.] |
| tantuparvan | तन्तुपर्वन् | tantu—parvan n. ‘thread-festival’, the day of full moon in month Śrāvaṇa (anniversary of Kṛṣṇa's investment with the Brāhmanical cord), [Tithyād.] |
| tantusāraka | तन्तुसारक | tantu—sāraka m. id., [W.] |
| tantukṛntana | तन्तुकृन्तन | tantu—kṛntana n. cutting off the propagation of a family, [BhP. vi, 5, 43.] |
| tantuniryāsa | तन्तुनिर्यास | tantu—niryāsa m. ‘having stringy exudations’, the palmyra tree, [L.] |
| tantusaṃtāna | तन्तुसंतान | tantu—saṃtāna m. weaving of threads, [Dhātup. xxvi, 2]; [KauṣUp. i, 3], Sch. |
| tantusaṃtata | तन्तुसंतत | tantu—saṃtata mfn. woven, [L.] |
| sewn, [L.] |
| tantu—saṃtata n. wove cloth, [W.] |
| tantusaṃtati | तन्तुसंतति | tantu—saṃtati f. sewing, [Vop. xi, 1.] |
| tantuvardhana | तन्तुवर्धन | tantu—vardhana m. ‘race-increaser’, Viṣṇu, [MBh. xiii, 7033] |
| Śiva. |
| tantuvigrahā | तन्तुविग्रहा | tantu—vigrahā f. = tata-pattrī, [L.] |
| tantuvāyaśālā | तन्तुवायशाला | tantu—vāya—śālā f. a weaver's workshop, [Gal.] |
| tantuvāyadaṇḍa | तन्तुवायदण्ड | tantu—vāya—daṇḍa m. a loom, [Uṇ. iv, 149], Sch. (v.l.) |