बन्धbandha

बन्ध (bandha) is a Sanskrit word meaning binding, tying, bond, or chain, a ligature or bandage, damming up a river, capture, arrest, imprisonment, connection or intercourse with, putting together or uniting. Its 37 recorded definitions are grouped into 17 contexts, among them Act of Binding/Tying; Bond, Fetter, Deposit, Pledge, Construction, Building, Damming.

Roots: स्था (sthā), बन्ध् (bandh)
Etymology: E. बन्ध to tie, aff. अच्
Definitions: 37

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Meanings by context

Act of Binding/Tying; Bond, Fetter

7 definitions

binding, tying, bond, or chain

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a ligature or bandage

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Tying, fastening, or bandaging. 2. Catching or capturing. 3. Fettering or arrest. 4. Joining or putting together. 5. Posture of the hands and feet. 6. Construction or building. 7. Damming up. 8. Bond, tie, or band. 9. Bandage or fillet. 10. Sinew or tendon. 11. Receptacle. 12. Combination of words or letters. 13. Pledge or deposit. 14. Mundane bondage.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Binding. 2. Holding in fetters. 3. The body. 4. Building. 5. Forming. 6. Agreement or union. 7. A tie, fetter, or knot. 8. A pledge or deposit.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Binding, tying, fettering, or capturing. 2. Custody or prison. 3. A band, string, or bodily sinew. 4. A chain, tether, or bondage. 5. Joining, connection, or position. 6. Union or intercourse. 7. Forming, constructing, building an embankment, or bridging. 8. Fixing or turning upon. 9. Manifestation, exhibition, or display.

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. A binding or sacrifice. 2. A band or string.

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

1. Binding, tying, a bond, chain, or fetter. 2. A ligature or bandage. 3. Capturing or imprisonment. 4. Directing the mind towards anything. 5. Joining, uniting, or building. 6. An embankment or bridge. 7. Contracting the brows. 8. A physical posture or position of the limbs. 9. Connection, agreement, or union. 10. Manifestation or display. 11. A sinew or tendon. 12. A pledge or deposit. 13. A border, framework, or enclosure. 14. Spiritual bondage. 15. The construction of words. 16. A disease preventing the eyelids from closing.

बन्ध (bandha) [Printed book page 0673-a]
Bandha, as, m. binding, tying, a bond, tie, chain,

fetter, knot, halter, tether [cf. pāda-b°]; a ligature,

bandage; laying snares; catching, capturing, capture;

binding in fetters, fettering, confining, imprisoning,

confinement, imprisonment, custody [cf. rāja-b°];

fixing, directing (the mind towards anything); bind-

ing together, joining, uniting [cf. pāṇi-b°]; joining

the hollowed hands; forming, constructing, construc-

tion, building, erecting (e. g. setor bandhaḥ, the

construction of an embankment or bridge; cf. setu-

b°); embanking, an embankment, throwing a bridge

across (a river); contracting or knitting the brows

[cf. bhrukuṭi-b°]; joining the hands or feet in

particular positions, any posture or position of the

limbs or body generally, a position, posture (e. g.

āsana-b°, a sitting posture); a particular position of
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the hands and feet [cf. mahā-b°, mūla-b°]; a par-

ticular position in coitus; connection, intercourse,

society; agreement, union; manifestation, exhibition,

display [cf. rāga-b°]; consequence, result (e. g.

ariṣṭa-b°, having welfare as a consequence, causing

welfare); a sinew, tendon; a pledge, deposit, (per-

haps rather) pledging [cf. bandhaka]; that with

which anything is bound together or bordered,

border, framework, inclosure; (in philosophy) bon-

dage, (opposed to mukti, mokṣa, and regarded in

the Sāṅkhya system as threefold, viz. prakṛti-b°,

vaikārika-b°, dakṣiṇā-b°; cf. karma-b°, dak-

ṣiṇā-b°); (in rhetoric) combination of sounds, con-

struction of words; a disease in which the eyelids

cannot be wholly closed; (in comp. with numerals)

a part [cf. daśa-b°, pañca-b°; cf. also Lat. pondus;

Lith. bandà, ‘a herd of cattle;’ Angl. Sax. bonda,

bœnd, bœst; Hib. bad = Armor. bód, ‘a bunch,

bush, cluster, tuft, thicket.’] —Bandha-karaṇa, am,

n. binding, fettering, restraining, holding back,

preventing, impeding. —Bandha-kartṛ, tā, trī,

tṛ, a binder, one who fetters or restrains. —Ban-

dha-tantra, am, n. a complete army, or one pos-

sessing the four divisions of chariots, elephants, horse,

and foot. —Bandha-deśa, N. of a country men-

tioned in the Ratna-koṣa. —Bandha-pāruṣya,

am, n. forced construction of words. —Bandha-

maya, as, ī, am, consisting of bonds or ties, serving

for a bond, being of the nature of a bond. —Ban-

dha-mudrā, f. the impression or mark of fetters.

—Bandha-mocanikā or bandha-mocinī, f. ‘re-

leasing from bonds,’ N. of a Yoginī. —Bandha-

stambha, as, m. ‘binding-post,’ the post to which

an elephant is tied. [ID=34403]

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Deposit, Pledge

5 definitions

anything deposited

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a deposit or pledge

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. A pledge or deposit. 2. A tie, fetter, or binding. 3. The body.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. A pledge, deposit, or binding. 2. The body.

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. A pledge or deposit. 2. A binding, tie, or fetter. 3. The body. 4. Joining or forming. 5. A bandage or ligature. 6. Connection or intercourse. 7. Agreement or union. 8. Result. 9. Border or framework. 10. Manifestation or display. 11. Bondage. 12. A posture. 13. A sexual position from the Kama Shastra. 14. Feeling. 15. Laying snares. 16. A stanza arranged in a specific shape.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Construction, Building, Damming

3 definitions

damming up a river

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

constructing and building

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

bridging over the sea

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Literary/Musical Composition or Arrangement

3 definitions

combination of sounds or arrangement of words

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

arrangement of a stanza in a particular shape

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

arrangement of musical sounds or composition

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Bodily Configuration, Posture

2 definitions

joining the hollowed hands

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

any configuration or position of the body

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Connection, Union, Combination, Intercourse

2 definitions

connection or intercourse with

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Putting together or uniting. 2. Contracting or combining. 3. Forming or producing.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Fixing, Directing (attention); Knitting (brows)

2 definitions

knitting the brows

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

fixing or directing

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Philosophical/Mundane Bondage

2 definitions

mundane bondage or attachment to this world

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Prakrita, Vaikarika, and dakshina

— The Purana Index

The Body; Sinew, Tendon

2 definitions

a sinew, tendon

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the body

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Verbal Root: To Bind/Tie

2 definitions

To bind or tie

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. To bind or tie. 2. When prefixed with ang, to loosen. 3. When prefixed with anu, to follow or be attached to. 4. When prefixed with ni, to disunite. 5. When prefixed with sam, to connect.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

A Part (in compounds with numerals)

1 definition

a part

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Assumption or Obtainment (of a body)

1 definition

assumption or obtainment

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Border, Framework, Receptacle

1 definition

a border, framework, enclosure, or receptacle

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Capture, Arrest, Imprisonment

1 definition

capture, arrest, imprisonment

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Conceiving, Feeling, Manifesting (emotions/states)

1 definition

conceiving, cherishing, feeling, or betraying

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Disease (of eyelids)

1 definition

a disease which prevents the eyelids from closing completely

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Mode of Sexual Union

1 definition

a particular mode of sexual union

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 10 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.