daṇḍá m. (= δένδρο-ν -v, hence cognate with dā́ru and √ dṝ) (n. [cf. ikṣu-] g. ardharcādi) a stick, staff, rod, pole, cudgel, club, [RV.] &c. (staff given at investiture with the sacred thread, [ŚBr.] &c.; ‘penis [with vaitasá]’, [xi, 5, 1, 1]; ‘trunk’, see śuṇḍā-; ‘arm’ or ‘leg’, see dor-, bāhu-; ‘tusk’, see daṃṣṭrā-)
= °ḍakāsana, [BṛNārP. xxxi, 115] (n.)
a stalk, stem (of a tree; cf. ikṣu-, ud-, khara-), [MBh. ii, 2390]
the staff of a banner, [2079]; [iv], [xiv]
the handle (of a ladle, sauce-pan, fly-flap, parasol &c.), [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.] &c.
the steam of a plough, [L.]
‘a mast’, see mahādaṇḍa-dhara
the cross-bar of a lute which holds the strings, [ŚāṅkhŚr. xvii]
the stick with which a lute is played, [L.]
a churning-stick (cf. °ḍāhata), [L.]
a pole as a measure of length (= 4 Hastas), [VarBṛS. xxiv, 9]; [MārkP. il]
N. of a measure of time (= 60 Vi-kalās), [BrahmaP. ii]; [VarP.]; [BhavP.]
N. of a staff-like appearance in the sky (‘N. of a planet’, [L.]; cf. -bhāsa), [VarBṛS.]
N. of a constellation, [xx, 2]; [VarBṛ.]; [Laghuj.]
a form of military array (cf. -vyuha), [L.]
a line (cf. -pāta)
a staff or sceptre as a symbol of power and sovereignty (cf. nyasta-), application of power, violence, [Mn. vii f.]; [MBh.]
power over (gen. or in comp.), control, restraint (cf. vāg-, mano-, kāya- [karma-, [MārkP. xli, 22]]; tri-daṇḍin), [Subh.]
embodied power, army (kośa-,du. ‘treasure and army’, [Mn. ix, 294]; [MBh.]; [Kir. ii, 12]), [Mn. vii]; [Ragh. xvii, 62]
the rod as a symbol of judicial authority and punishment, punishment (corporal, verbal, and fiscal; chastisement and imprisonment, reprimand, fine), [TāṇḍyaBr. xvii, 1] [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (cf. guptá & gūḍha-)
pride, [L.]
daṇḍá m. a horse, [L.]
Punishment (son of Dharma and Kriyā, [VP. i, 7, 27]; [MārkP. l])
Yama, [L.]
Śiva, [MBh. xii, 10361]
N. of an attendant of the Sun, [iii, 198]
(g. śivādi and śaunakādi) N. of a man with the patr. Aupara, [MaitrS. iii, 8, 7]; [TS. vi, 2, 9, 4]
of a prince slain by Arjuna (brother of -dhara, identified with the Asura Krodha-hantṛ), [MBh. i f.], [viii]
of a Rakṣas, [R. vii, 5, 39]
See °oḍaka