पिण्ड

पिण्ड m

1. Devanagari script form of piṇḍa (“lump”)

Compare Khotanese piṇḍaa- (piṇḍaa-, “lump”), Old Armenian պինդ (pind, “firm, dense, tight, strong”).

पिण्ड • (píṇḍa) m, n

1. round mass or heap, ball, lump (RV., TS., ŚBr., etc.)
2. bite of food, morsel
3. a ball of rice or flour offered to ancestors (GṛŚṛS., Mn., MBh., etc.)
4. food, sustenance (MBh., Kāv., etc.)
5. mass, body (Ragh., Śaṃk., Vajracch.)
6. calf (Mālatīm.)
7. the flower of a china rose (L.)
8. portico (L.)
9. force, power, army (L.)
10. (in the dual) fleshy parts of the shoulder above the clavicle (MBh.)
11. (in the dual) protrusion on the upper forehead of an elephant (L.)
12. embryo at an early stage of development (L.)
13. a kind of incense (Var.
14. myrrh, olibanum (L.)
15. meat, flesh (L.)
16. alms (Mālatīm.)
17. Meyna laxiflora (L.)
18. quantity, collection (L.)
19. sum
20. sine expressed in a series of numbers
21. sound, tone
22. name of a man
23. iron (L.)
24. steel
25. fresh butter

• Monier Williams (1899), “पिण्ड”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0625.
• Witzel, Michael (2003) Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia (Sino-Platonic Papers; 129)‎, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, page 33