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piṇḍa

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