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bandh

cl. 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.]