bándhu m. connection, relation, association, [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. with f(U). = belonging to, coming under the head of i.e. ‘being only in name’; cf. kṣatra-, dvija-b° &c.; ‘resembling’, [Bālar. v, 56/57], ‘frequented by’, [ib.] [iii, 20], ‘favourable for’, [ib.] [iv, 87]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 14])
respect, reference (kena bandhunā ‘in what respect?’), [ŚBr.]
kinship, kindred, [Mn. ii, 136]
a kinsman (esp. on the mother's side), relative, kindred, [RV.] &c. &c. (in law, a cognate kinsman in a remote degree, one subsequent in right of inheritance to the Sa-gotra; three kinds are enumerated, personal, paternal and maternal)
a friend (opp. to ripu), [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [BhP.]
a husband, [Ragh.]
a brother, [L.]
Pentapetes Phoenicea, [L.] (= bandhūka)
N. of a metre, [Col.]
(in astrol.) of the fourth mansion, [Var.]
of a Ṛṣi with the patr. Gaupāyana or Laupāyana (author of [RV. v, 24] and [x, 5660]), [RAnukr.]
of Manmatha, [L.]