píṇḍa m. (rarely n.) any round or roundish mass or heap, a ball, globe, knob, button, clod, lump, piece (cf. ayaḥ-., māṃsa- &c.), [RV.] (only [i, 162, 19] and here applied to lumps of flesh), [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c. &c.
a roundish lump of food, a bite, morsel, mouthful
(esp.) a ball of rice or flour &c. offered to the Pitṛs or deceased ancestors, a Śrāddha oblation ([RTL. 293]; [298]-[310]), [GṛŚrS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
food, daily bread, livelihood, subsistence, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
any solid mass or material object, the body, bodily frame, [Ragh.]; [Śaṃk.]; [Vajracch.]
the calf of the leg, [Mālatīm. v, 16]
the flower of a China rose, [L.]
a portico or partic. part of a house, [L.]
power, force, an army, [L.]
píṇḍa m. (du.) the fleshy parts of the shoulder situated above the collar-bone, [MBh.]
(du.) the two projections of an elephant's frontal sinus, [L.]
the embryo in an early stage of gestation, [L.]
a partic. kind of incense, [Var.] (‘myrrh’ or ‘olibanum’, [L.])
meat, flesh, [L.]
alms, [Mālatīm.] (cf. -pāta below)
Vangueria Spinosa, [L.]
quantity, collection, [L.]
(in arithm.) sum, total amount
(in astron.) a sine expressed in numbers
(in music) a sound, tone
N. of a man g. naḍādi
píṇḍa n. ([L.]) iron
steel
fresh butter