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• -न्धम्

  1. Darkness. अन्धः स्यादन्धवेलायां बाधिर्यमपि चाश्रयेत् Mb. 1.14.12.
  2. Spiritual ignorance; अज्ञान or अविद्या q.v.
  3. Water; also, turbid water.

• -धः

  1. A kind of mendicant (परिव्राजक) who has completely controlled his organs; तिष्ठतो व्रजतो वापि यस्य चक्षुर्न दूरगम् । चतुष्पदां भुवं मुक्त्वा परिव्राडन्ध उच्यते ॥
  2. An epithet of the zodiacal signs at particular periods; (नष्टद्रव्यलाभालाभोपयोगयुक्तो राशिभेदः); मेषो वृषा मृगेन्द्रश्च रात्रावन्धाः प्रकीर्तिताः । नृयुक्कर्कटकन्याश्च दिवान्धाः परिकीर्तिताः ॥ -न्धाः (Plural) Name of a people; see अन्ध्र.

• -अलजी a blind boil or abscess in the eyes (one that does not open or suppurate). (Vedic अलजि विसल्पस्य विद्रधस्य वातीकारस्य वालजेः Av.9.8.2.) -अहिः, -अहिकः a blind serpent, id est, that is one that is not poisonous. (-हिः, -हिकः) Name of a fish (कुचिका).

• -कारः अन्धं करोति darkness (Literal and Figurative); लीनं दिवाभीतमिवान्धकारम् Ku. 1.12; कामdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied, मदनdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied; अन्धकारतामुपयाति चक्षुः K.36 grows dim; बाष्पजलधारान्धकारितमुखी K.161,286.

• -कूपः

  1. अन्धयतीत्यन्धः, अन्धः कूपः
  2. a well, the mouth of which is hidden; a well overgrown with plants etc.
  3. अन्धस्य दृष्टयभावस्य कूप इव mental darkness, infatuation.
  4. Name of a hell, to which those who tease and kill harmless creatures are condemned.

• -तमसम् (ParasmaipadaV.4. 79.) -तामसम्, -न्धातमसम् deep or complete darkness; लोकमन्धतमसात्क्रमोदितौ R.11.24; अन्धतमसमिव प्रविशामि Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)7 the gloom of hell; प्रध्वंसितान्धतमसस्तत्रोदाहरणं रविः Śi.2.33. (-सा) night.

• -तामिस्रः

  1. श्रः (-स्रम् also)
  2. complete or deep darkness (especially of the soul); तामिस्रोष्टदशधा तथा भवत्यन्धतामिस्रः Sāṅ K.48 (भयविशेषविषयकोऽभिनिवेशः); तस्यामन्धतामिस्रमभ्यध्यायत् Mv.1.
  3. spiritual ignorance (देहे नष्टे अहमेव नष्टः इति रूपमज्ञानम्); enveloped in utter darkness.
  4. (स्रः, स्रम्) Name of a division of Tartarus or infernal regions, the second of the 21 hells to which those who seduce the wives of others and enjoy them are condemned. According to Bhavabhūti persons committing suicide were condemned to this hell; Compare अन्धतामिस्रा ह्यसूर्या नाम ते लोकास्तेभ्यः प्रतिविधीयन्ते य आत्मघातिन इत्येवमृषयो मन्यन्ते Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)4; तामिस्रमन्धतामिस्रं महारौरवरौरवौ । नरकं कालसूत्रं च महानरकमेव च ॥ Ms.4.88,197; Y.3.224; doctrine of annihilation after death.
  5. Death मोहोऽप्रकाशस्तामिस्रमन्धतामिस्रसंज्ञितम् । मरणं चान्धतामिस्रं तामिस्रं क्रोध उच्यते ॥ Mb.12.313.25.

• -धी Adjective mentally blind.

• -पूतना a demoness supposed to cause diseases in children; यो द्वेष्टि स्तनमतिसारकासहिक्काछर्दीभिर्ज्वर- सहिताभिरर्द्यमानः । दुर्वर्णः सततमधःशयोऽम्लगन्धिस्तं ब्रूयुर्वरभिषजोन्ध- पूतनार्तम् Suśr.

• -मूषा a small covered crucible with a hole in the side.

• -मूषिका [अन्धं दृष्ट्यभावं मुष्णाति, मुष्-ण्वुल्] Name of a plant or grass देवताड (तत्सेवनेन चक्षुष्मत्ता भवतीति वैद्यकप्रसिद्धिः).

• -रात्री dark night (Ved).

• -वर्त्मन् Masculine अन्धं सूर्यप्रकाशराहित्याद्वर्त्म यत्र the seventh skandha or region of wind.

Derived forms and compounds

• -कः

  1. Name of an Asura, son of Kasyapa and Diti and killed by Śiva. [He is represented as a demon with 1 arms and heads, 2 eyes and feet, and called Andhaka, because he walked like a blind man, though he could see very well; स व्रजत्यन्धवद्यस्मा- दनन्धोऽपि हि भारत । तमन्धकोऽयं नाम्नेति प्रोचुस्तत्र निवासिनः ॥ He was slain by Śiva when he attempted to carry off the Pārijāta tree from heaven; whence Śiva is calledAndhakaripu, -ari, -dviṣ etc. According to the Matsya Purāṇa Andhaka was admitted to the class of Gaṇas by Śiva, at his importunities and humble supplication, when he was about to be killed by the god for having attempted to carry off his wife Pārvatī].
  2. Name of a descendant of Yadu and ancestor of Krisna and his descendants, a grandson of Krostu, son of Yudhājit who, together with his brother Vrisni is the ancestor of the celebrated family of Andhakavrisnis; ParasmaipadaIV. 1.114, VI.2.34.
  3. Name of a sage, son of Mamatā and of Utathya, elder brother of Bṛihaspati.

• -अरिः -रिपुः, -शत्रुः, -घाति, -असुहृढ् etc. slayer of Andhaka, epithets of Śiva.

• -वर्तः Name of a mountain.

• -वृष्णि Masculine Plural descendants of अन्धक and वृष्णि.