# भाण्डार (bhāṇḍāra)

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भाण्डार (bhāṇḍāra) is a Sanskrit word meaning a storehouse, a store-house, store-room or warehouse.

- **SLP1:** `BARqAra`  **IAST:** bhāṇḍāra  **Devanagari:** भाण्डार
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhandara_%28Hinduism%29
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/bhandara/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** भण्डार (bhaṇḍāra), भण्डर (bhaṇḍara)

## Meanings by context

### Storehouse or Warehouse (5 definitions)
- a storehouse  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 752,3] भाण्डा (bhāṇḍā) र (bhāṇḍāra) m. = (and fr. ) भाण्डा (bhāṇḍā) गार (gāra), a storehouse, Catalogue(s) [Cologne Addition] (Title) ( cf. Religious Thought and Life in India, also called ’Brāhmanism and Hindūism,’ by Sir M. Monier-Williams (Title) 248 ). [ ID=149829 ]
- store-room or warehouse  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > भाण्डार (bhāṇḍāra) [Printed book page 203-3 ] भाण्डार (bhāṇḍāra) bhāṇḍāra, m. store-room, warehouse. [ ID=13147 ]
- A storehouse  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > भाण्डार (bhāṇḍāra) [Printed book page 528-b ] भाण्डार (bhāṇḍāra) n. ( - रं (-raṃ) ) A store-house. [ ID=29309 ]
- a storehouse, treasury  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > भाण्डार (bhāṇḍāra) [Printed book page 376 ] भाण्डार (bhāṇḍāra) m. ° गृह (°gṛha) n. = भाण्डागार (bhāṇḍāgāra). [ ID=22784 ]
- a store-house  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > भाण्डार (bhāṇḍāra) [Printed book page 0705-c ] Bhāṇḍāra = bhāṇḍāgāra (of which it is a corrupt or contracted form). —Bhāṇḍāra-gṛha, am, n. a store-house. [ ID=35357 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872); Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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