नाडी (nāḍī) is a Sanskrit word meaning any pipe or tube, a flute, the box of a wheel, a fistulous sore, the pulse, any hole or crevice. Its 18 recorded definitions are grouped into 9 contexts, among them Tube, Pipe, Stalk, or General Reference, Anatomical Vessel, Pulse, or Sore, Musical Instrument (Flute).
the tubular stalk of any plant or any tubular organ of the body, such as a vein or artery
(H2) [Printed book page 534,2] नाड (nāḍa)ी (nāḍī)f. (fr.नाड (nāḍa)nom.°डीस् (°ḍīs), Ṛg-veda (Title) x, 135, 7) the tubular stalk of any plant or any tubular organ (as a vein or artery of the body) [ID=105382]
1. A tube, including sunbeams regarded as hollow. 2. A slit or crack. 3. A tubular vessel in the body or a vein. 4. The pulse.
नाडी (nāḍī) [Printed book page 138-3] नाडी (nāḍī) nāḍī́, f. (V.nm.-s), tube (also of the rays of the sun, regarded as hollow and sucking up water); slit, crack; tubular vessel in the body, vein; pulse. [ID=10440]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
The same as nadi
नाडी (nāḍī) [Printed book page 374-02] नाडी (nāḍī)f. The same as नाडि (nāḍi) q.v. [ID=19168]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
naḍa + a + ī
नाडी (nāḍī) [Printed book page 0464-b] नाडी (nāḍī)nāḍī,i. e.naḍa + a + ī, also [ID=7302]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Tube, pipe, or flute. 2. Cranny or fissure. 3. Vein or pulse. 4. Wheel-box.
नाडी (nāḍī) [Printed book page 265] नाडी (nāḍī)f. tube, pipe, flute; cranny, fissure; vein, pulse, etc. (v.नाडि (nāḍi)); wheel-box. [ID=16102]
नाडी (nāḍī) [Printed book page 1-441] 1. Nāḍī denotes a ‘vein’ or ‘artery’ in the human body in the Atharvaveda1 and later,2 a natural extension of the literal sense of ‘reed.’ [Footnote: 1) vi. 138, 4; x. 7, 15. 16.]
[Footnote: 2) Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xii. 10; Śata- patha Brāhmaṇa, x. 4, 5, 2; Bṛhad- āraṇyaka Upaniṣad, ii. 1, 21; iv. 2, 3, etc.; Chāndogya Upaniṣad, viii. 6, 1; Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, iv. 19.] [ID=1536]
— The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects
Musical Instrument (Flute)
2 definitions2
a flute
a flute, Ṛg-veda (Title) ; Kāṭhaka (Literary category) [ID=105384]
2. Nāḍī means a musical instrument, a ‘reed flute,’ in the Rigveda1 as well as the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā,2 where in one passage it is mentioned along with the Tūṇava.3 [Footnote: 1) x. 135, 7.]
[Footnote: 2) xxiii. 4; xxxiv. 5.]
[Footnote: 3) xxxiv. 5. Cf. Hopkins, Journal of the AmericanOriental Society, 13, 329.] [ID=1537]
— The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects
Wheel Component (Box/Hub)
2 definitions2
the box of a wheel
the box of a wheel, Taittirīya-saṃhitā (Title) ; Kāṭhaka (Literary category) [ID=105385]
3. Nāḍī in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās1 seems to mean the box of the chariot wheel. [Footnote: 1) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, iii. 4, 8, 3; Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxxvii. 12.] [ID=1538]
— The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects
A Type of Bent Grass
1 definition1
a sort of bent grass
a sort of bent grass (= गण्ड-दूर्वा (gaṇḍa-dūrvā)), Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ID=105389]
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Definitions on this page come from 6 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
