# पाण्डु (pāṇḍu)

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पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) is a Sanskrit word meaning yellowish white, white, pale, jaundiced, pale or yellowish white color, a white elephant, Trichosanthes dioeca, a species of shrub. Its 30 recorded definitions are grouped into 9 contexts, among them The Color Pale or Yellowish-White, Other Individuals/Beings Named Pāṇḍu, King Pāṇḍu (Epic Hero).

- **Root:** पण्ड् (paṇḍ)
- **Etymology:** E. पडि to go, aff. कु, and the penultimate vowel made long — E. paḍi to go, aff. ku, and the penultimate vowel made long
- **SLP1:** `pARqu`  **IAST:** pāṇḍu  **Devanagari:** पाण्डु
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandu
- **Declensions:** 72 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/pandu/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** पांडु (pāṃḍu), पण्डु (paṇḍu)

## Meanings by context

### The Color Pale or Yellowish-White (10 definitions)
- yellowish white, white, pale  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H1) [Printed book page 616,1] पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) mfn. (√ पण्ड् (paṇḍ) ?) yellowish white, white, pale, Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa (Title); Mahābhārata (Title); Kāvya literature (Literary category) &c. [ ID=121549 ]
- pale or yellowish white color  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > pale or yellowish white colour, Horace H. Wilson, author of first Sanskrit-English dictionary in 1819 (Author) [ ID=121552 ]
- 1. Yellowish white, whitish, or pale. 2. Name of a sovereign of ancient Delhi, son of Vyasa and brother of Dhritarashtra.  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 159-2 ] पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) pāṇḍ-ú, a. ( f. id. ) yellowish white, whitish, pale; m. N. of a sovereign of ancient Page159-3 Delhi, a son of Vyāsa and brother of Dhṛtarāṣṭra; -cchāya, a. white-coloured; -tā, f. yellowish white colour, paleness; -nandana, m. son of Pāṇḍu; -pattra, n. yellow (= withered) leaf; -putra, m. son of Pāṇḍu; -bhūma, m. pale-coloured (chalky) soil. [ ID=11444 ]
- 1. Pale or yellowish-white. 2. The name of an ancient king. 3. Jaundice. 4. A white elephant. 5. A plant.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 523 ] पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) mfn. ( - ण्डुः (-ṇḍuḥ)- ण्डुः (-ṇḍuḥ)- ण्डु (-ṇḍuḥ-ṇḍuḥ-ṇḍu) ) Pale or yellowish white. m. ( - ण्डुः (-ṇḍuḥ) ) 1 Pale or yellowish white, (the colour.) 2 The name of a sovereign of ancient Delhi, and nominal father of YUDHIṢṬHIRA and the other four Pāṇḍava princes. 3 The jaundice. 4 A white elephant (?). f. ( - ण्डुः (-ṇḍuḥ) ) A plant, commonly Maṣāni, ( Glycine debilis.) E. पडि (paḍi) to go, aff. कु (ku), and the penultimate vowel made long. [ ID=24231 ]
- 1. Pale or yellowish white. 2. Pale color. 3. Name of a king. 4. Jaundice. 5. A white elephant. 6. A plant.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 468-a ] पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) ( ण्डुः - ण्डुः - ण्डु ) ((ṇḍuḥ-ṇḍuḥ-ṇḍu)) a. Pale or yellowish white. m. Pale colour; name of a Page468-b+ 38 king, Pāndu; jaundice; white elephant. f. A plant. [ ID=23705 ]
- 1. Pale or yellowish-white. 2. An ancient king of Delhi and father of the Pandavas. 3. Jaundice. 4. A white elephant. 5. A plant, Mashaparni.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 440-b ] पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) mfn. ( - ण्डुः (-ṇḍuḥ)- ण्डुः (-ṇḍuḥ)- ण्डु (-ṇḍuḥ-ṇḍuḥ-ṇḍu) ) Pale of yellowish white. m. ( - ण्डुः (-ṇḍuḥ) ) 1. Pale or yellowish white, (the colour.) 2. the name of a sovereign of ancient Delhi, and nominal father of YUDHISHṬHIRA and he other four Pāṇḍava princes; he was a son of Vyāsa by the wife of Bichitrabirya. 3. The jaundice. 4. A white elephant. f. ( - ण्डुः (-ṇḍuḥ) ) A plant, commonly Māshaparni, (Glycine debilis.) E. पडि (paḍi) to go, aff. कु, (ku,) and the penultimate vowel made long. [ ID=24286 ]
- 1. Pale or yellowish white. 2. The name of a king, father of the Pandavas.  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 0539-b ] पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) pāṇḍu, I. adj. Pale, white, yellowish white, Śāk. d. 80. II. m. The name of a sovereign, father of Yudhiṣṭhira, and the other four Pāṇ- ḍavas. — Comp. Puṣpa-, m. a kind of snake. Vi-, adj. pale, Śic. 9, 3. [ ID=8603 ]
- 1. Whitish yellow, white, or pale. 2. The name of an ancient king.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 310 ] पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) a. whitish yellow, white, pale ( abstr. ° ता (°tā) † f., ° त्व (°tva) † n. ), N. of an ancient king. [ ID=18773 ]
- 1. Whitish or pale. 2. A prince of the Lunar Race.  
  *Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 189-b ] pāṇḍú, a. whitish, pale; as m. Pāndu, name of a prince of the Lunar Race. [ ID=2539 ]
- 1. Yellowish white, white, or pale. 2. A pale or yellowish white colour. 3. Jaundice. 4. The plant Trichosanthes dioica. 5. A white elephant. 6. Name of a prince, son of Vyasa and father of the Pandavas. 7. Name of a son of Janamejaya. 8. Name of a son of Dhatri. 9. Name of an attendant of Shiva. 10. Name of a Naga king. 11. Name of a people in Madhya-desha. 12. A species of plant, Glycine debilis.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 0562-c ] पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) pāṇḍu, us, us, u (said to be fr. rt. paṇḍ ), yellowish white, white, pale; ( us ), m. pale or yellowish white colour; jaundice; N. of two plants, Trichosanthes Diœca ( = pāṇḍura-phalī ); a white elephant; N. of a prince, a son of Vyāsa by the wife of Vicitra-vīrya and brother of Dhṛta- rāṣṭra and Vidura; of a son of Janam-ejaya and brother of Dhṛta-rāṣṭra; of a son of Dhātṛ by Āyatī (according to others he is called Prāṇa); of an attendant of Śiva; of a Nāga-rāja; of a people in Page0563-a+ 81 Madhya-deśa; ( us ), f. a species of plant, Glycine Debilis (commonly called Maṣāṇi); [cf. Hib. buidhe, ‘yellow.’] —Pāṇḍu-kaṇṭaka, as, m. Achy- ranthes Aspera (= apā-mārga). —Pāṇḍu-kambala, as, m. a white woollen covering or blanket; a warm upper garment; the housings of a royal elephant; a kind of stone (limestone or marble ?). —Pāṇḍu- kambalin, ī, inī, i, covered with a white woollen blanket; ( ī ), m. a carriage covered with a sort of blanket; the housings of a royal elephant. —Pāṇ- ḍu-karaṇa, am, or pāṇḍu-karman, a, n. (in medicine) making or rendering white. —Pāṇḍu- taru, us, m. Grislea Tomentosa ( = dhava ). —Pāṇ- ḍu-tā, f. or pāṇḍu-tva, am, n. whitish-yellow colour, paleness. —Pāṇḍu-tīrtha, am, n., N. of a Tīrtha. —Pāṇḍu-dukūla, am, n. a white winding- sheet. —Pāṇḍudukūla-sīvana, am, n. ‘sewing of the white winding-sheet,’ N. of a place where Śākya-muni made a white winding-sheet. —Pāṇḍu- nāga, as, m. a white elephant; the plant Rottleria Tinctoria. —Pāṇḍu-pattra-tā, f., Ved. the growing yellow of leaves. —Pāṇḍu-pattrī, f. = reṇukā, a species of fragrant substance. —Pāṇḍu-putra, as, m. a son of Pāṇḍu, any one of the Pāṇḍava princes; (there are many similar compounds, as Pāṇḍu- nandana, &c.) —Pāṇḍu-pṛṣṭha, as, ā, am, white-backed, having no distinguished or auspicious mark on the body, one from whom nothing great is to be expected. —Pāṇḍu-phala, as, m. ‘having yellow fruit,’ Trichosanthes Diœca; ( ā ), f. a species of gourd (= cirbhiṭā); (ī), f. = pāṇḍura-phalī. —Pāṇḍu-bhāva, as, m. becoming yellowish-white. —Pāṇḍu-bhūma, as, ā, am, having a white, chalky soil; ( as ), m. a country with a light-coloured soil. —Pāṇḍu-mṛttika, as, ā, am, having a white, chalky soil, consisting of chalk; ( ā ), f. a pale soil; the opal. —Pāṇḍu-mṛd, t, f. chalk, a chalky soil, a country in which the soil is of a whitish colour. —Pāṇḍu-raṅga, as, m. a kind of vegetable (com- monly called pāṭarāṅgā ). —Pāṇḍu-rāga, as, m. Artemisia Indica; whiteness, pallor. —Pāṇḍu-roga, as, m. ‘yellow disease,’ jaundice. —Pāṇḍurogin, ī, iṇī, i, suffering from jaundice, jaundiced. —Pāṇḍu- lekha, am, n. an outline or sketch made with a style or with chalk. —Pāṇḍu-lomaśā or pāṇḍu-lomā, f. Glycine Debilis. —Pāṇḍu-varṇa, as, ā, am, pale- coloured, white; ( as ), m. whiteness. —Pāṇḍu-varma- deva, as, m., N. of a prince. —Pāṇḍu-śarkarā, f. light-coloured gravel (the disease). —Pāṇḍu-śar- milā, f. an epithet of Draupadī the wife of the sons of Pāṇḍu. —Pāṇḍu-sopāka, as, m. a particular mixed caste, the offspring of a Caṇḍāla by a Vaidehī mother (whose occupation, according to Manu X. 37, is working with bamboos and reeds, making baskets, mats, &c.). —Pāṇḍv-āmaya, as, m. ‘yellow disease,’ jaundice. —Pāṇḍvāmayin, ī, inī, i, suffer- ing from jaundice, jaundiced. [ ID=28751 ]

### Other Individuals/Beings Named Pāṇḍu (7 definitions)
- a son of Janamejaya and brother of Dhritarashtra  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a son of Janam-ejaya and brother of Dhṛta-rāṣṭra, Mahābhārata (Title) i, 3745 [ ID=121557 ]
- a son of Dhatri by Ayati  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a son of Dhātri by Āyatī, Viṣṇu-purāṇa (Title) ( v.l. प्रा (prā) ण (ṇa) ) [ ID=121558 ]
- an attendant of Shiva  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of an attendant of Śiva, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ ID=121559 ]
- a Nagaraja  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > of a Nāgarāja, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ ID=121560 ]
- son of the elder Janamejaya  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > [Printed book page 535-1 ] Pāṇḍu 2, son of the elder Janamejaya. § 154 (Pūruvaṃś.): I, 94, 3745 (second son of Janamejaya). [ ID=8014 ]
- an Arsheya Pravara of the Angiras family  
  *The Purana Index*
  > Pāṇḍu (II) — an Ārṣeya Pravara (Āngīras). M. 196. 9. [ ID=7743 ]
- a son of Vidhata and Ayati  
  *The Purana Index*
  > Pāṇḍu (III) — a son of Vidhāta and Āyatī; married Puṇḍarīkā and had a son Dyutimān. Vā. 28. 5, 35. [ ID=7744 ]

### King Pāṇḍu (Epic Hero) (3 definitions)
- Name of a son of Vyasa, brother of Dhritarashtra and Vidura, and father of the five Pandavas.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > N. of a son of Vyāsa by the wife of Vicitra-vīrya and brother of Dhṛta-rāṣṭra and Vidura (he was father of the five Pāṇḍavas), Atharva-veda-pariśiṣṭa (Title); Mahābhārata (Title); Harivaṃśa (Title) &c. [ ID=121556 ]
- son of Vyasa by Ambalika, husband of Kunti and Madri, and father of the five Pandavas  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 534-1 ] Pāṇḍu, son of Vyāsa by Ambālikā, the widow of Vicitravīrya; husband of Kuntī and Mādrī and father of the five Pāṇḍavas. § 4 (Anukram.): I, 1, 95 (son of Vyāsa), 110, 117, 118.— § 11 (Parvasaṅgr.): I, 2, 376.—§ 51 (Parikṣit): I, 40, 1665 ( yathā, great-grandfather of Parikṣit).—§ 56 (do.): I, 49, 1955 ( yathā ).—§ 70 (Ādivaṃśāvatāraṇap.): I, 60, 2213 (begotten by Vyāsa).—§ 83 (Ādivaṃśāvatāraṇa): I, 63, 2441 (do.), 2443 (his five sons), 2449 (grandfather of Abhimanyu).—§ 130 (Aṃśāvat.): I, 67, 2721 (younger brother of Dhṛtarāṣṭra), 2751 ( °oḥ putraḥ, sc. Arjuna).— § 157 (Pūruvaṃś.): I, 95, ††3808 (son of Vyāsa), ††3811 (husband of Kuntī and Mādrī), ††3812, ††3813, ††3815 (his five sons), ††3817 (his death).—§ 171 (Vicitravīryasutotpatti): I, 106, 4291 (? his birth from Ambālikā, the widow of Vicitravīrya, by Vyāsa), 4301 (brother of Vidura).—§ 173 (Pāṇḍurājyābhiṣeka): I, 109, 4353, 4357, 4361 (became king).—§ 176 (Kuntīvivāha): I, 112, 4415 ( Bharata- sattamaṃ ), 4417, 4419, 4423, 4424 ( Kauravanandanaḥ, married Kuntī).—§ 177 (Pāṇḍudigvijaya): I, 113, 4425, 4430, 4442 (married Mādrī), 4445, 4449 ( Kauravānāṃ yaśobhṛtā ), 4452, 4455, 4460, 4461, 4462 (his digvijaya).— § 178 (of. Sambhavap.): P. then at the command of Dhṛtarāṣṭra offered his wealth to Bhīṣma, Satyavatī, Kausalyā, Vidura, etc., and with the wealth acquired by him Dhṛtarāṣṭra performed 100 horse sacrifices. With Kuntī and Mādrī he became a permanent inhabitant of the woods, addicted to hunting on the southern slope of the Himālaya, supplied with every object of pleasure and enjoyment at the command of Dhṛtarāṣṭra : I, 114, 4470, 4474, 4477.—§ 180 (Gāndhārīputrotpatti): I, 115, 4484 (his five sons), 4487.—§ 183 (cf. Sambhavap.): The muni Kindama inflicted a curse on P., cf. Agastya ( b ) (I, 118 ): I, 118, 4562 ( rājā ), 4563, (4569), (4574), 4591.—§ 184 (do.): P. declared that he would lead the life of a brahmacārin according to the āraṇyaśāstras, and send his attendants to Hāstinapura to inform Bhīṣma, etc. ( Dhṛtarāṣṭra wept), and with his wives, protected by mahābhūtas, Siddhas, and paramarṣis, he traversed the mountain of Nāgaśata, Caitraratha, Kālakūṭa, Himavat, Gandhamādana, Indradyumnasaras, and Haṃsakūṭa; then he practised ascetic austerities on Śataśṛṅga (I, 119 ): I, 119, 4593, 4615, (4621), 4629, 4630, 4634, 4636.—§ 185 (do.): P. became dear to the Siddhas, Cāraṇas, and ṛṣis, and like to a brahmarṣi. On the new-moon day when the maharṣis assembled in order to partake of a great gathering of gods, ṛṣis, and pitṛs in the abode of Brahmán, P. wanted to accompany them with his wives from Śataśṛṅga to the north, but they told him that the princesses could not ascend the king of mountains ( śailarāja ), where they had seen the retreats of gods, Gandharvas, and Apsarases, and the gardens of Kubera, where only Vāyu and the Siddhas and the para- marṣis could go. As he complained of being childless, they told him to let somebody else raise offspring for him. P.'s conversation with Kuntī. P. quoted the words of Manu Svāyambhuva (b ) and the example of Śāradaṇḍāyanī (c ) (I, 120 ): I, 120, 4643, 4645, 4647, (4654), 4665.—§ 186 (do.): Kuntī in reply alleged the Paurāṇic narrative of Page534-b+ 63 Vyuṣitāśva (q.v.) and entreated Pāṇḍu to beget children by his ascetic power (I, 121 ): I, 121, 4680.—§ 187 (do.): P. said that women formerly were not bound to adhere faithfully to their husband, and were not regarded sinful when yielding to their desire; that practice was applauded by the maharṣis, and even now prevailed among birds and beasts and among the Uttara-Kurus. It was the muni Śvetaketu (b ) who established the now existing practice (§ 188). P. further alleged the example of Madayantī (b ) and of Vyāsa : I, 122 (4717).—§ 189 (do.): Kuntī related to Pāṇḍu how she had obtained the mantra from Durvāsas (cf. § 131); P. told her to invoke Dharma (I, 122 ): I, 122, 4746, (4754).—§ 190 (Pāṇḍavotpatti): I, 123, 4767 ( Yudhiṣṭhiraḥ…P°oḥ prathamajaḥ sutaḥ ), 4768, 4776, 4777, 4782 ( Kuntī gave birth by Dharma to Yudhiṣṭhira, by Vāyu to Bhīmasena, by Indra to Arjuna ).—§ 191 (do.): I, 123, 4833.—§ 192 (do.): I, 124, 4836, (4842), 4844, 4857, 4859 (by the Aśvins Mādrī gave birth to Nakula and Sahadeva ), 4862 ( °oḥ sutāḥ pañca ).—§ 193 (cf. Sambhavap.): P. died in accordance with the curse inflicted on him by Kindama (cf. § 183). Kuntī wished to be burnt together with him, but this Mādrī did not allow, and herself ascended the funeral pyre (I, 125 ): I, 125, 4866, 4869, 4877 ( Kurunandanaḥ ), 4882.—§ 194 (do.): The ascetics took Kuntī, the children, and the two corpses to Hāstinapura. Hearing of the arrival of thousands of Cāraṇas ( Guhyakas, v. 4930; Siddhas, v. 4931) and munis, people soon after sunrise began to come out from the city to see, together with Bhīṣma, Somadatta, Bāhlika, the blind rājarṣi (i.e. Dhṛtarā- ṣṭra ), the kṣattṛ Vidura, Satyavatī, Kausalyā, Gāndhārī, accompanied by the other ladies of the royal household ( rājadāraiḥ ), and the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. It was seventeen days after the death of P. (v. 4925). The ṛṣis, etc., suddenly disappeared like a fata morgana ( Gandharvanagara ) (I, 126 ): I, 126, 4899, 4901 ( °oḥ putrān ), 4903 ( °or darāṃś ca putrāṃś ca ), 4918 ( Kauravyadāyādaḥ ), 4923, 4925, 4929 ( Kurukulodvahaḥ ).—§ 195 (do.): Dhṛtarāṣṭra caused Vidura (in consultation with Bhīṣma ) to celebrate the funeral ceremonies ( pretakāryāṇi ) of P. and Mādrī on the bank of the Gaṅgā (I, 127 ); I, 127, 4932, 4933, 4935, 4936, 4937, 4942, 4948.—§ 196 (Vyāsa): I, 128, 4964.— § 211 (Sambhavap.): I, 139, 5535.—§ 213 (Jatugṛhap.): I, 141, 5668; 142, 5677, 5679, 5681, 5682; 145, 5744 ( Kurunandanaḥ ); 150, 5866; 151, 5906 ( bhāryāṃ P°oḥ, i.e. Kuntī).—§ 221 (Caitrarathap.): I, 170, 6500.—§ 235 (Svayaṃvarap.): I, 191, †7147 ( °os tanayāḥ ).—§ 237 (Vaivāhikap.): I, 193, †7191 ( °r ḥi rājā Drupadasya rājñaḥ priyaḥ sakhā ).—§ 241 (Vidurāgamanap.): I, 200, 7387 ( °ḥ putrāḥ ); 203, 7441.—§ 243 (do.): I, 206, 7519 (sc. putrāḥ ).—§ 244 (Rājyalābhap.): I, 207, 7562 ( iva ).— § 267 (Yamasabhāv.): II, 8, 336 (in the palace of Yama).— § 271 (Lokapālasabhākhyānap.): II, 12, 486, 501, 506 (wished that Yudhiṣṭhira should perform the rājasūya, that he might himself ascend to the world of Indra).—§ 289 (Arghāharaṇap.): II, 37, 1350 ( Bhīṣmake…P°vat kṛtalakṣaṇe, otherwise PCR.).—§ 297 (Dyūtap.): II, 54, 1943 ( °oḥ sutān ).—§ 305 (Anudyūtap.): II, 79, 2600 ( mṛte, all. to § 193), 2610.—§ 311 (Āraṇyakap.): III, 4, †222 ( °oḥ sutān ), †232 ( °oḥ putraṃ, sc. Yudhiṣṭhira).—§ 313 (do.): III, 6, 285 ( °oḥ sutāḥ ).—§ 314 (do.): III, 9, 342 ( yādṛśaḥ ), 343 (sc. putrāḥ ).—§ 317 (Arjunābhigamanap.): III, 12, 580 ( snuṣā P°oḥ, i.e. Draupadī).—§ 325 (Draupadī— paritāpav.): III, 27, 1022 ( snuṣāṃ P°oḥ, i.e. Draupadī).— Page535-a+ 63 § 436 (Yakṣayuddhap.): III, 159, 11631 ( °oḥ putrān ).— § 437 (do.): III, 160, 11661 ( °oḥ putrāḥ ).—§ 438 (do.): III, 161, 11770 ( °oḥ puṭrān ).—§ 449 (Ājagarap.): III, 177, †12348 ( °oḥ sutāḥ ).—§ 525 (Rāmopākhyānap.): III, 273, 15863 ( snuṣā P°oḥ, i.e. Draupadī).—§ 554 (Sainyod- yogap.): V, 1, †11 ( °oḥ, sutaiḥ ).—§ 556 (Sañjayayānap.): V, 20, 606; 24, †720 ( °oḥ sutāḥ ).—§ 557 (Prajāgarap.): V, 33, †1092 ( rājñaḥ P°oḥ putrāḥ pañca ).—§ 559 (do.): V, 36, †1331 ( °oḥ sutāḥ ).—§ 562 (Bhagavadyānap.): V, 82, 2892 ( snuṣā P°oḥ, i.e. Draupadī).—§ 567 (do.): V, 132, 4481.—§ 569 (do.): V, 137, 4655 ( snuṣāṃ P°oḥ, i.e. Draupadī); 140, 4734 ( °oḥ putro 'si dharmataḥ, sc. Karṇa); 141, 4756 ( °oḥ putro 'smi dharmataḥ, says Karṇa), 4758 (do.); 147, 4997; 148, 5008, 5009, †5036 ( rājyaṃ P°oḥ ); 149, 5068, 5069.—§ 570 (Sainyaniryāṇap.): V, 156, 5298 ( °oḥ putrāḥ ); 158, 5376 ( °oḥ putraḥ, sc. Arjuna). —§ 586 (Bhīṣmavadhap.): VI, 104, 4764 ( °pūrvajaṃ, sc. Bhīṣmaṃ C.; °pūrvajāḥ, sc. Pāṇḍavāḥ B.; but read °pūrvaja, i.e. Dhṛtarāṣṭra with PCR.); 107, 4941 ( °pūrvajaṃ, sc. Bhīṣmaṃ, B. and C.; read °pūrvaja ), 4954 ( °pūrvajaḥ, sc. Bhīṣmaḥ, B. and C.; read °pūrvaja ), 4979.—§ 587 (do.): VI, 108, 5020 (read with B. °pūrvaja, C. °pūrvajaṃ ); 109, 5065 (do., do.); 116, 5432 ( °pūrvaja = Dhṛtarāṣṭra).— § 593 (Abhimanyuvadhap.): VII, 39, 1670 ( °oḥ kṣetrod- bhavāḥ sutāḥ ).—§ 596 (Pratijñāp.): VII, 74, 2616 ( °oḥ khila kṣetre jātaḥ Śakreṇa, sc. Arjuna).—§ 599 (Jayadratha- vadhap.): VII, 102, 3840.—§ 608 (Karṇap.): VIII, 61, 3100 ( °pūrvaja, i.e. Dhṛtarāṣṭra).—§ 611 (Śalyap.): IX, 13, 694 (do.).—§ 613 (Gadāyuddhap.): IX, 33 ε, 1903 ( °oḥ Kuntyāś ca santatiḥ ).—§ 641 (Rājadh.): XII, 75, 2853.—§ 777 (Svargārohaṇik. p.): XIII, 168, 7738 ( yathā P°oḥ sutāḥ ).—§ 785 (Anugītāp.): XIV, 66, 1955 ( °oś ca piṇḍaḥ ).—§ 787 (Āśramavāsap.): XV, 4, 160; 9 λ, 284; 10, 321; 17 χ, 476 ( °oḥ…santatiḥ ), 488 ( °oḥ putrāḥ ); 20, 554 ( Balahantur samīpataḥ ), 567 (in the abode of Indra). —§ 789 (Putradarśanap.): XV, 31 η, 851 ( Marudgaṇād dhi viśiṣṭatamaṃ ).—§ 795 (Svargārohaṇap.): XVIII, 4, 144; 5, 161 ( Mahendrasadanaṃ yayau ). Cf. Bhārata, Bharatarṣabha, Bharatasattama, Kaurava, Kauravanandana, Kauravarṣabha, Kauravya, Kauravyadāyāda, Kausalyānanda- vardhana, Kurūdvaha, Kurukulodvaha, Kurunandana, Kuru- pati, Kurupravīra, Nāgapurādhipa, Nāgapurasiṃha. [ ID=8013 ]
- A royal sage, son of Vichitravirya, husband of Kunti and Madri, and father of the five Pandavas.  
  *The Purana Index*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) [Printed book page 2-310 ] Pāṇḍu (I) — a Rājaṛṣi: one of the three sons of Vicitra- vīrya; (Kṛṣṇadvaipāyana — Vā. P. ) born to Vyāsa; married two wives, Kunti alias Prthā, sister of Vasudeva and Mādri; father of the five Pāṇḍavas, who were born to Kunti by favour of Gods, himself being prevented by a curse from having sexual intercourse; on his death Pṛthā with the young children underwent a lot of difficulties. Bhā. I. 4. 7; IX. 22. 25, 27; 24. 36; I. 9. 13. M. 46. 8; 50. 47-9; Vā. 96. 150; 99. 242-3; 112. 45; Vi. IV. 14. 34; 20. 38-42. [ ID=7742 ]

### Specific Plants or Shrubs (3 definitions)
- Trichosanthes dioeca  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > Trichosanthes Dioeca, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ ID=121554 ]
- a species of shrub  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > a species of shrub, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ ID=121555 ]
- Glycine debilis  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) f. Glycine Debilis, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ ID=121562 ]

### A People, Tribe, or Group (2 definitions)
- a people in Madhya-desa  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > pl. of a people in Madhya-deśa, Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā (Title) ( v.l. पाण्ड्य (pāṇḍya) and ° ड्व (°ḍva) ) [ ID=121561 ]
- the Pandavas  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > Pāṇḍu, pl. = Pāṇḍava, pl. (also = the party of Yudhiṣṭhira): I, 444, 458, 462, 5541, 5728, 7359, 7556, 7782 ( °ūnāṃ pravaraḥ, i.e. Arjuna), 8017 ( °sāgaraṃ ); II, †2349; III, 244, 11021, 15071, 15186, 15792, 16923; IV, 213, 263 ( Kṛṣṇāñ ca bhāryāṃ P°ūnāṃ ); V, 52, 92 ( Kuru-P°ṣu ), 97 ( Kuru-P°ūnāṃ ), 582, 2271, 2366 ( Kuru-P°saṃāgame ), 2896, 5925, 7583; VI, 2028 ( °sainyeṣu ), 2066, 2324, 2716 ( °sainyena ), 2918, 2935, 3639, 3669 ( °ūnāṃ…sainyeṣu ), 3884, 3969, 4256, 4292, 4365 ( °sainyaṃ ), 4696 ( °senāḥ ), †4885 ( °senāṃ ), 5002 ( °sainyasya ), 5468 ( °senāṃ ), 5521 ( °senā ), 5600, 5847; VII, 413, 434 ( °-Sṛñjayaiḥ ), 489 ( °-Sṛñjayāḥ ), 494 ( °vāhinīṃ ), 669 ( °-Sṛñjayāḥ ), 883, 1066, 1160 ( °-Pāñcālān ), 1175, 1359, 1412, 1414, 1692, 1763, 1779, 1782, 2556 ( °-Pāñcālān ), 2612, 2613, 3078, 3513 ( °-Sṛñjayaiḥ ), 3939, 3959 ( °ūnām ṛṣabhasya, i.e. Arjuna), 4010, 4011 ( °sainyasya ), 4163, 4435 ( °sainye ), 4482, 4497, 4498 ( °sainyaṃ ), 4682 ( °-Pāñcāla- ), 4683 ( °-Pāñcālān ), 4892 ( °-Pāñcāla-Matsyānāṃ ), 4933 ( °-Pāñcālān ), 5018, 5098, 5307 ( °senā ), 5335 ( °-Sṛñjayaiḥ ), 6519, 6521, 6605 ( °senāṃ ), 6622 Page535-b+ 63 ( °sainikāḥ ), 6625 ( °senāṃ ), 6641, 6679 ( °-Sṛñjayāḥ ), 6770 ( °sainyāni ), 7352 ( °-Pāñcālasainyānāṃ ), 7480 (only B.), 7738, 8267 ( °-Pāñcālān ), 8268, 8269, 8271, 8308 ( °-Sṛñjayāḥ ), 8391, 8392, †8460 ( Kuru-P°yodhāḥ ), 8919, 8939, 9159, 9204 ( °-Pāñcālāḥ ), 9209, 9214 ( °-Pāñcāla-Sṛñjayāḥ ), 9217, 9245 ( Kuru-P°ṣu ), 9254 ( °sainyaṃ ), 9266, 9388 ( °vāhinīṃ ); VIII, 307, 687, 839, 844 ( °-Sṛñjaya-Pāñcālān ), 846 ( Kuru- Pāñcāla-P°ṣu ), 868 ( °-Pāñcālāḥ ), 884 ( °-Pāñcāla-Somakāḥ ), 889 ( °yodhān ), 890 ( °rathakuñjarāḥ ), 1236, 1281, 2285, 2307 ( °-Pāñcālāḥ ), 2309 ( °-Pāñcāla-Kaikayaiḥ ), 2312, 2332, 2682, 3010 ( °-Sṛñjayān ), 3012, 3013, 3067 ( °-Sṛñjayaiḥ ), 3090 ( °sainyāni ), 3258, 3891 ( °sainyaṃ ), 3951 ( °-Pāñcālāḥ ), 4018 ( °sainyāni ), †4313 ( °-Sṛñjayaiḥ ), †4325 (do.), †4492 ( Kuru- P°yodhāḥ ), †4592 ( °-Pāñcālagaṇān ), 5031 ( °-Pāñcāla- Sṛñjayāḥ ); IX, 339, 538 ( °camūṃ ), 619 ( °senāṃ ), 870 ( °-Pāñcāla-Somakāḥ ), 958, 965, 976 ( °vāhinīṃ ), 1032, 1097 ( °senāṃ ), 1125, 1211, 1239, 1581 ( °-Sṛñjayaiḥ ), 1687 ( °-Kauravasaṃmardāt ), 1713, 1788 ( Pāñcāla-P°ūnāṃ ), 3209, 3408, 3583; X, 56, 139 ( Pāñcāla-P°ūnāṃ ), 158, 159, 398 ( °-Sṛñjayān ); XI, 299 ( °ūnāṃ kadanaṃ ), 353, 628; XII, †1895 ( Yaduvṛṣa-P°avaḥ ); XIV, 1974 ( garbhān…P°ūnāṃ ). [ ID=8015 ]

### Jaundice (The Disease) (2 definitions)
- jaundiced  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > jaundiced, Carakasaṃhitā (Title) [ ID=121550 ]
- jaundice  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) m. jaundice, Carakasaṃhitā (Title) [ ID=121551 ]

### A White Elephant (1 definition)
- a white elephant  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > a white elephant, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ ID=121553 ]

### Pāṇḍu Kambala (Pale Blanket) (1 definition)
- 1. A sort of blanket or upper garment. 2. A kind of stone. 3. Housing for an elephant.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > [Printed book page 468-b ] पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) कम्बल ( लः ) (kambala (laḥ)) 1. m. A sort of blanket or upper garment; kind of stone; housings of elephant. [ ID=23707 ]

### Pāṇḍu Mṛt (Pale Earth/Chalk) (1 definition)
- chalk  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पाण्डु (pāṇḍu) मृत् ( त् ) (mṛt (t)) 5. f. Idem; chalk. [ ID=23713 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Index to the Names in the Mahabharata; 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, University of Cologne.

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