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daṇḍaka

m. (g. ṛśyādi) (n. g. ardharcādi) ifc. ‘a staff’, see tri-


a handle (of a parasol), [L.]


the beam (of a plough), [L.]


the staff of a banner, [MBh. vii], [ix]


([Pāṇ. v, 3, 87], [Kāś.]) N. of a plant, [Suśr. v, 7, 1]


a row, line, [ŚāṅkhŚr.], Sch.


a class of metres the stanzas of which may extend from 4 × 27 to 4 × 999 syllables, [Chandaḥs. vii, 33]-[36]; [HanRāmUp. 15]


a kind of spasm, [Car. vi, 28]; [Bhpr. vii, 36, 171] and [227]


(°ḍākhya) [171/172]


N. of wk. relating to, [VS.]


m. N. of a son of Ikṣvāku (whose country was laid waste by the curse of Bhārgava, whose daughter he had violated; his kingdom in consequence became the °kāraṇya), [MBh. xii] (allusion only), [Hariv. 637]; [BhP. ix, 6, 4]; [Kām.] (v.l. dāṇḍakya)


°ṇḍa, [R. vii, 79, 15]; [VP. iv, 2, 4]; [VāyuP. ii, 26, 9]; [PadmaP. i]


N. of a silly man, [Bharaṭ. xxv]


of an Asura, [Vīrac. xvi]


m. pl. the inhabitants of °kāraṇya, [MBh. ii], [xiii]; [R.]; [Ragh.]; [VarBṛS.]


n. = °kāraṇya, [MBh. xiii]; [R.]; [BhP. ix, 11, 19]; [Prasannar. vii, 77] (pl.)


m. N. of a Bhoja (v.l. °kya).