Kandara, Kandarā, Kaṇḍarā, Kamdara: 27 definitions

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Sanskrit dictionary

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Kaṇḍarā (कण्डरा):—f. Sehne, deren im menschlichen Leibe sechszehn angenommen werden, [Suśruta 1, 256, 6. 8. 12. 337, 12. 338, 6. 2, 304, 2.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 631.]

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Kandara (कन्दर):—gaṇa aśmādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 2, 80] (caturṣvartheṣu von kanda; vgl. kandara [3.]) m. f. n. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa.3,5,22.] n. [Siddhāntakaumudī 249,b,1.]

1) m. f. (kandarī gaṇa gaurādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 41]) n. Höhle, Schlucht [Amarakoṣa 2, 3, 6.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 339.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1033.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 528] (kandure st. kandaro). [Medinīkoṣa r. 133.] siṃhaḥ kandarasthaḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 11, 6.] siddhādhyāsitakandare [Bhartṛhari 1, 67.] kiṃ kandāḥ kandarebhyaḥ pralayamupagatāḥ [3, 26.] tadanviṣyatāṃ kaścinnirvāto vanapradeśaḥ . guhā vā girikandaraṃ vā [Pañcatantra 93, 8.] girīṇāṃ kandarāṇi [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 75, 72. 4, 48, 3. 9, 42. 49, 19. 6, 19, 30.] [Duaupadīpramātha 5, 7.] [Meghadūta 57.] [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 35.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 6, 11. 7, 12, 20.] vasudhādharakandarā [Vikramorvaśī 16.] [Meghadūta 57, v. l.] Am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [Mahābhārata 3, 8865.] Viell. zusammeng. aus kam + dara. —

2) m. ein Haken zum Antreiben des Elephanten (aṅkuśa) [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 339.] [Medinīkoṣa] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] (aṅkura!). —

3) Ingwer (aus Knoten - Knollen [kanda] bestehend) [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma]

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Kandara (कन्दर):—[UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 3, 131.]

1) m. f. (ā) [Halāyudha 2, 12.] giri [Mahābhārata 12, 4285.] [Spr. 2183.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 21, 18.] astādrikandarā [Kathāsaritsāgara 72, 364.] —

4) f. ā zur Erklärung von caṇḍālikā die Laute der Caṇḍāla [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 13.] kiṃnarā st. kandarā [Medinīkoṣa] —

5) f. ā Nomen proprium einer der Mütter im Gefolge Skanda's [Mahābhārata 9, 2627.] — Vgl. surabhi .

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Kāṇḍāra (काण्डार):—m. Bez. einer best. Mischlingskaste: der Sohn eines Kaivarta von einer Koñca-Frau [Oxforder Handschriften 22,a,1.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Kaṇḍarā (कण्डरा):—f. Sehne Comm. zu [Gotama's Nyāyadarśana 3,2,68.]

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Kandara (कन्दर):——

1) (*m.) f. ( ā) n. (adj. Comp. f. ā) Höhle , Schlucht.

2) *m. ein Haken zum Antreiben des Elephanten.

3) f. ā — a) *die Laute der Cāṇḍāla. — b) Nomen proprium einer der Mütter im Gefolge Skanda's. —

4) *n. Ingwer.

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Kāṇḍāra (काण्डार):—m. eine best. Mischlingskaste.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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