Kodanda, ǻ岹ṇḍ, Kodamda: 21 definitions
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Kodanda means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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In Hinduism
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
: Google Books: Manthanabhairavatantramǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड) refers to the “eyebrows�, according to the Ṣaṭsāhasrasaṃhitā, an expansion of the Kubjikāmatatantra: the earliest popular and most authoritative Tantra of the Kubjikā cult.—The Ṣaṭsāhasrasaṃhitā supplies a brief description of the Yogic practice by means of which the Accomplishment of Speech, that stimulates the operation of the Command, develops:—“One should meditate on the light that is within the Cavity of Brahmā (between) the eyebrows (ǻ岹ṇḍ). [...] Having meditated on it, one conquers Speech. [...] The Command functions by his seeing and looking (at the Divine Light). The Accomplishment of Speech, which brings about the immediate possession of men, comes about (spontaneously in this way). It is both speech in Sanskrit and the vulgate. It is the understanding of the wisdom of the scripture. It is attained if one is intent on practice�

Shakta (शाक्�, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.
General definition (in Hinduism)
Source: Wisdom Library: HinduismSanskrit for 'bow'.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
: MUNI Arts: Kalachakra and the twenty-five Kulika kings of Shambhalaǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड) refers to “bow� and represents one of the attributes of Sumitra or Rigden Shenyenzang refers to one of the Twenty-five Kulikas as well as one of the traditional Shambhala rulers.—His attributes are a bow (Sanskrit: dhanus, 貹, śԲ, ǻ岹ṇḍ, ܰ첹, śṅg; Tibetan: shu [gshu]) and arrow.

Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (Բ) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryǻ岹ṇḍ : (nt.) a bow.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionaryǻ岹ṇḍ, (nt.) (cp. Sk. ǻ岹ṇḍ) a cross-bow M. I, 429 (opp. to 貹); Miln. 351 (dhanu and k°). °첹 same J. IV, 433 (explained by dhanu). (Page 228)
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionaryǻ岹ṇḍ (ကောဒဏ္�) [(pu,na) (ပု၊�)]�
[ki�+dṇḍ+a.ki�+damu+ḍa.ki�+du+ḍa.ku+dṇḍ.ki� nāmena dṇḍyatīti ǻ岹ṇḍ�,ki� nāmena damyatīti vā ǻ岹ṇḍṃ.ki� nāmena dunotīti ǻ岹ṇḍṃ.kuṭilattā vā kucchito daṇḍo yassātthīti ǻ岹ṇḍṃ.,ṭī.388.]
[ကိ�+ဒဏ္�+အ။ ကိ�+ဒမ�+ဍ။ ကိ�+ဒ�+ဍ။ က�+ဒဏ္ဍ။ ကိ� နာမေ� ဒဏ္ဍယတီတ� ကောဒဏ္ဍံ၊ ကိ� နာမေ� ဒမျတီတ� ဝ� ကောဒဏ္ဍံ။ ကိ� နာမေ� ဒုနောတီတ� ကောဒဏ္ဍံ။ ကုဋိလတ္တ� ဝ� ကုစ္ဆိတေ� ဒဏ္ဍေ� ယဿာတ္ထီတ� ကောဒဏ္ဍံ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၃၈၈။]

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarykōdṇḍ (कोदं�).—n (S) A bow. 2 fig. or ūō岹ṇḍ An eyebrow. 3 fig. (From a tale of Rawa�'s being overpowered and nearly strangled by the bow of Ram, which he had raised.) A heavy calamity or trouble. See 峾ō岹ṇḍ.
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kōdṇḍ (कोदं�).—a P Rough, rude, violent, overbearing.
: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishkōdṇḍ (कोदं�).�n A bow.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड).—A bow; रे कन्दर्� कर� कदर्थयसि कि� कोदण्डटङ्कारवै� (re kandarpa kara� kadarthayasi ki� ǻ岹ṇḍṭaṅkāravai�) ṛh 3.1; कोदण्डपाणिनिनदत्प्रतिरोधकानाम् (ǻ岹ṇḍpāṇininadatpratirodhakānām) M.5.1.
-ṇḍ� 1 An eye-brow.
2) Name of a country.
Derivable forms: ǻ岹ṇḍ� (कोदण्ड�), ǻ岹ṇḍm (कोदण्डम्).
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionaryǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड).—mn.
(-ṇḍ�-ṇḍ�) A bow. m.
(-ṇḍ�) 1. An eyebrow. 2. The name of a country. E. � to sound, ṇḍ Unadi affix, &c. dana inserted; the final radical consonant is rejected; otherwise, kud to speak false, ṇḍc aff.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionaryǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड).—[ko-dṇḍ] (ko = kas, nom. sing. of kim; cf. ku-), n. (and m.), A bow, [ṛh, (ed. Bohlen.)] 1, 97.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionaryǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड).—[substantive] a bow.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) ǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड):—[=ko-dṇḍ] mn. [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] a bow, [Mālavikāgnimitra; ṛh; Bhāgavata-purāṇa; Kathāsaritsāgara xxii, 92; Rājataraṅgiṇ� v, 104; Hitopadeśa]
2) [v.s. ...] m. an eyebrow (shaped like a bow), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) [v.s. ...] a creeping plant, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) [v.s. ...] Name of a country, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionaryǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड):—[(ṇḍ�-ṇḍ�)] 1. m. n. A bow. m. Eye-brow; name of a country.
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)ǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: ǻ岹ṃḍ.
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryǻ岹ṃḍ (कोदं�) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: ǻ岹ṇḍ.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusKōdaṃḍa (ಕೋದಂ�):�
1) [noun] (in schools of yester years) a punishment of tying the hands of a student with a rope and pulling it up.
2) [noun] the rope used for this purpose.
3) [noun] ಕೋದಂಡಕ್ಕೇರಿಸ� [kodamdakkerisu] kōdṇḍkkērisu to tie (the hands of a student) with a rope and pull the rope upward; ಕೋದಂಡಕ್ಕ� ಹಾಕು [kodamdakke haku] kōdṇḍkke hāku = ಕೋದಂಡಕ್ಕೇರಿಸ� [kodamdakkerisu].
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Kōdaṃḍa (ಕೋದಂ�):�
1) [noun] a device for shooting arrows with a taut string joining the ends of a curved piece of wood etc; a bow.
2) [noun] the line of hair growing on the ridge above the eye socket; the eye-brow.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionaryǻ岹ṇḍ (कोदण्ड):—n. a bow;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Kim, A, Ko, Tanta.
Starts with: Kodamdagama, Kodamdakamda, Kodamdapamdita, Kodamdapartha, Kodamdarudra, Kodandaka, Kodandamandana, Kodandarama, Kodandayantra, Kotantam, Kotantapani, Kotantaveli, Kotantavellam.
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Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 6.7.14 < [Chapter 7 - The Marriage of Śrī Rukmiṇī]
Verse 5.14.46 < [Chapter 14 - The Meeting of King Nanda and Uddhava]
Verse 5.6.24 < [Chapter 6 - Seeing Śrī Mathurā]
Sculpture at its Best < [May-June, 1929]
English in India < [October 1964]
Mr. P. Kodanda Rao: A Profile < [July � September 1975]
Chaitanya Bhagavata (by Bhumipati Dāsa)
Verse 3.4.322 < [Chapter 4 - Descriptions of Śrī Acyutānanda’s Pastimes and the Worship of Śrī Mādhavendra]
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 8.5 < [Chapter 8 - Literary Qualities]
Text 10.84 < [Chapter 10 - Ornaments of Meaning]
Text 10.102 < [Chapter 10 - Ornaments of Meaning]