mf(A)n. broken, having chasms or gaps or breaks, [Suśr.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 30], [Kāś.]
deficient, defective, crippled (cf. ṣaṇḍa), [Āp.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. xvi, 18, 18], Sch.
(in comp. or ifc. [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 38]; [Pat.])
not full (as the moon), [KātyŚr.], Sch.; [Subh.]
m. n. (g. ardharcādi) ‘a break or gap’, cf. kedāra-kh°
a piece, part, fragment, portion, [R.]; [Suśr.]; [Megh.] &c. (indoḥ kh° or tārādhipa-kh° [cf. also khaṇḍendu] ‘the crescent’, [Prasannar.])
treacle or molasses partially dried, candied sugar, [Bhpr.]; [Naiṣ.]; [Sāh.]
a section of a work, part, chapter (e.g. of [AitĀr.]; [KenUp.] &c.)
a continent, [Gaṇit.]
(in alg.) a term in an equation, [Gaṇit.]
m. n. a party, number, multitude, assemblage, [MBh.] (sometimes not to be distinguished from ṣaṇḍa), [R. i, 30, 15] &c. (ifc. m. or n. cf. [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iv, 2, 38] and [51])
m. a flaw in a jewel, [L.]
a calf with horns half grown, [Gal.]
(in music) a kind of measure
m. pl. N. of a people (v.l. ṣaṇḍa), [VarBṛS.]
n. a variety of sugar-cane, [W.]
black salt (viḍ-lavaṇa), [L.] (cf. uttara-, karka-, kāla-, kāśī-, śrī-, sitā-.)