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sindhu

síndhu m. and f. (prob. fr. √ 1. sidh, ‘to go’) a river, stream (esp. the Indus, and in this sense said to be the only river regarded as m. See -nada, col. 2), [RV.] &c. &c.

síndhu m. flood, waters (also in the sky), [RV.]; [AV.]

ocean, sea, [RV.] &c. &c.

a symbolical term for the number 4 (cf. 1. samudra), [Gaṇit.]

N. of Varuṇa (as god of the ocean), [MW.]

the moisture of the lips, [Kum.]

water ejected from an elephant's trunk (= vamathu), [L.]

the exudation from an elephant's temples, [L.]

the country around the Indus (commonly called Sindh; pl. ‘the inhabitants of Sindh’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

a king of Sindh (?), [Cat.]

N. of Viṣṇu, [RV.]; [MBh.]

white or refined borax (= śveta-ṭaṅkaṇa), [L.]

= sindhuka, [L.]

(in music) a partic. Rāga, [Saṃgītas.]

N. of a king of the Gandharvas, [R.]

of a serpent-demon, [Buddh.]

of various men, [Rājat.]