bandhá 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°).