Dindima, Ḍimḍima, Dimdima, Dindi-ma, Diṇḍima: 20 definitions
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Diṇḍima (दिण्डिम): a Musical Instrument.—It is not mentioned in the Vedic literature, but the Jātakas have it. The Rāmāyaṇa says that it had a leather facing. The Vāyu-purāṇa information is the same as in the case of Bherī.
Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम) refers to a type of “battle-drum”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.2.36. Accordingly, as Brahmā narrated to Nārada:—“on hearing these words of Dakṣa. the gods including Indra set off immediately in their readiness to fight. [...] Conchs were blown. Drums were beaten in that great war festival. Battle drums were sounded both big and small [viz., ḍiṇḍima]. Being encouraged by that sound, the devas in the company of the guardians of the quarters hit and thrashed the attendants of Śiva”.
Diṇḍima (दिण्डिम).—A war-musical instrument.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 138. 56; Mā. 40. 24.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Diṇḍima (दिण्डिम) refers to a musical instrument, first mentioned in Nāṭyaśāstra 4.253, after Śiva danced using Recakas and Aṅgahāras, and Pārvatī performed a ‘gentle dance’.
Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).
Biology (plants and animals)
Dimdima in India is the name of a plant defined with Carissa carandas in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Echites spinosus Burm.f. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Indian J. Med. Res. (1963)
· Bot. Cab. (1822)
· Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (1993)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1912)
· Mantissa Plantarum (1767)
· Cell and Chromosome Research (1986)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Dimdima, for example side effects, extract dosage, health benefits, diet and recipes, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, have a look at these references.
This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Dindima, (nt.) (Sk. ḍiṇḍima, cp. dundubhi) a musical instrument, a small drum J.VI, 580; Bu I.32. See also deṇḍima. (Page 322)
1) ḍiṇḍima (ဍိဏ္ဍိမ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[ḍiṇḍi+mā+ṇa．mā māne sadde ca,]]ḍiṇḍi]] iti māyate saddāyateti ḍiṇḍimo,ṇo．,ṭī.143．ḍiṇḍi+mi+a．ḍiṇḍiiti saddaṃ minoti pakāsayatīti ḍiṇḍimo．thoma.]
[ဍိဏ္ဍိ+မာ+ဏ။ မာ မာနေ သဒ္ဒေ စ၊ ＂ဍိဏ္ဍိ＂ ဣတိ မာယတေ သဒ္ဒါယတေတိ ဍိဏ္ဍိမော၊ ဏော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၁၄၃။ ဍိဏ္ဍိ+မိ+အ။ ဍိဏ္ဍိဣတိ သဒ္ဒံ မိနောတိ ပကာသယတီတိ ဍိဏ္ဍိမော။ ထောမ။]
2) ḍiṇḍima (ဍိဏ္ဍိမ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[ḍiṇḍi+mā+ṇa．mā māne sadde ca,]]ḍiṇḍi]] iti māyate saddāyateti ḍiṇḍimo,ṇo．,ṭī.143．ḍiṇḍi+mi+a．ḍiṇḍiiti saddaṃ minoti pakāsayatīti ḍiṇḍimo．thoma.]
[ဍိဏ္ဍိ+မာ+ဏ။ မာ မာနေ သဒ္ဒေ စ၊ ＂ဍိဏ္ဍိ＂ ဣတိ မာယတေ သဒ္ဒါယတေတိ ဍိဏ္ဍိမော၊ ဏော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၁၄၃။ ဍိဏ္ဍိ+မိ+အ။ ဍိဏ္ဍိဣတိ သဒ္ဒံ မိနောတိ ပကာသယတီတိ ဍိဏ္ဍိမော။ ထောမ။]
3) dindima (ဒိန္ဒိမ) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[dindi+ma．(ḍiṇḍima-saṃ,ḍiṃḍima-prā)]
[ဒိန္ဒိ+မ။ (ဍိဏ္ဍိမ-သံ၊ ဍိံဍိမ-ပြာ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) dindima—
(Burmese text): ဒိန်-ဟု မည်တတ်သော စည်၊ ဒိန္ဒိမ-စည်၊ စည်ငယ်၊ စည်တို (ဝ ၂ ဖက်ကျယ်၍ ခါးလယ်သေးသော စည်မျိုး)၊ စည်ပုတ် (ပုတ်၍တီးရသော စည်မျိုး၊ အောက်ကျဉ်းအထက်ကျယ် ဗုံတိုကလေး)၊ ပတ်သာ။ ဍိဏ္ဍိမ-လည်း ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): There are various types of vessels: Dain (a vessel that can hold), Dain-dime (a type of vessel), small vessel, short vessel (characterized by being wider at both ends and narrower in the middle), vessel for pounding (a vessel used for pounding, small with a wide base and narrow top), and pattha (circular vessel). Also look at Dain-dime.
2) ḍiṇḍima—
(Burmese text): (၁) ဍိဏ္ဍိမစည်၊ စည်တို၊ စည်ငယ်။ (၂) ဖားစည်။ (၃) ထက်စည်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Dinehsimi, Sitto, Singai. (2) Phasi. (3) Htaksie.
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
Ḍimḍima (डिम्डिम).—A kind of small drum (fig. also); इति घोषयतीव डिण्डिमः (iti ghoṣayatīva ḍiṇḍimaḥ) H.2.84; मुखरयस्व यशोनवडिण्डिमम् (mukharayasva yaśonavaḍiṇḍimam) N.4. 53; Amaruśataka 31; जण्डि रणितरसनारवडिण्डिममभिसर सरसमलज्जम् (jaṇḍi raṇitarasanāravaḍiṇḍimamabhisara sarasamalajjam) Gītagovinda 11; आर्यबालचरितप्रस्तावनाडिण्डिमः (āryabālacaritaprastāvanāḍiṇḍimaḥ) Mv.1.54.
Derivable forms: ḍimḍimaḥ (डिम्डिमः).
Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम).—m.
(-maḥ) 1. A musical instrument, a kind of small drum or tabor. 2. A plant, bearing a small fruit, (Carissa carandas:) (pānaāmalā) see kṛṣṇapāka. E. ḍiṇḍi imitative sound, a din, and ma what emits, from mi, with ḍa aff.
Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम).—m. A kind of drum, [Rāmāyaṇa] 5, 13, 49.
Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम).—[masculine] a kind of drum (also ā & [neuter]); humming, sound.
1) Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Somavallīyogānanda prahasana. Taylor. 1, 82. 334.
2) Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम):—the author of the Somavallīyogānanda prahasana, see Aruṇagirinātha.
1) Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम):—m. a kind of drum, [vii, ix; Harivaṃśa] (once f(mā). , [14836]), [Rāmāyaṇa v; Kathāsaritsāgara] (once n., [xci, 23]) etc. (ifc. f(ā). , [Amaru-śataka])
2) great noise, murmuring, clamour, loud assertion, [Kādambarī; Bālarāmāyaṇa; Vikramāṅkadeva-carita, by Bilhaṇa] (-tva n. abstr.) etc.
3) Carissa Carandas, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) mfn. humming, [Kādambarī ii, 154.]
5) Dindima (दिन्दिम):—m. Name of a man, [Horace H. Wilson]
Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम):—(maḥ) 1. m. A musical instrument, kind of drum or tabor; a plant (Carissa carondas).
Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम):—m.
1) eine Art Trommel [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 7, 8.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 86] (ḍindima). [Mahābhārata.7, 9025. 9, 2676.] [Harivaṃśa 12221. 13094. 13212. 14857. 15889.] [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 13, 49.] [Hitopadeśa II, 83.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 10, 171.] samāhataḍiṇḍimā adj. [Amaruśataka 28.] ḍiṇḍimā f. [Harivaṃśa 14836.] āravaḍiṇḍima [Gītagovinda 11, 7] nach dem Schol. Schlachttrommel. —
2) Name eines Strauchs, Carissa Carandas Lin. (kṛṣṇapākaphala), [Śabdacandrikā im Śabdakalpadruma]
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Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम):—
1) [Sāhityadarpana 91, 12.] bhramita [Kathāsaritsāgara 115, 79.] caṇḍa [112, 166.] dattaṃ tadā codghoṣaḍiṇḍimam (also auch n.) [91, 23.] adātāmatra tau śeṣajanasyābhayaḍiṇḍimam verkündeten unter Trommelschlag [118, 104.] saḍiṇḍimam adv. unter Trommelschlag [77, 82. 88, 33.] iti śrutismṛtiḍiṇḍimaḥ so v. a. so verkünden laut die Veda und Gesetzbücher [Nīlakaṇṭha 31.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 152, 17.] —
3) Abkürzung von śaṃkaravijayaḍiṇḍima [HALL 168.]
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Dindima (दिन्दिम):—s. u. ṭiṇṭiṇi .
Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम):——
1) m. f. ( ā) und n. eine Art Trommel. Am Ende eines adj. Comp. f. ā —
2) m. — a) Gebrumme [Bālarāmāyaṇa 50,4.90,11.] [Kād. (1872) 70,9.] madaḍiṇḍimatva n. [Vikramāṅkadevacarita 9,124.] iti śrutismṛtiḍiṇḍimaḥ so v.a. so verkünden laut die Veda und die Gesetzbücher. vāgḍiṇḍimāḍambara m. so v.a. lauter Wortschwall [Indische studien von Weber 15,292.] — b) *Carissa Carandas. — c) Abkürzung von śaṃkaravijayaḍiṇḍima. —
3) Adj. summend [Kād. (1872) 28,22.]
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Dindima (दिन्दिम):—und dinnasūri m. Nomen proprium zweier Männer.
Ḍiṇḍima (डिण्डिम) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ḍiṃḍima.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), 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
1) Ḍiṃḍima (डिंडिम) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Ḍiṇḍima.
2) Ḍiṃḍima (डिंडिम) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Ḍiṇḍima.
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
Ḍiṃḍima (ಡಿಂಡಿಮ):—[noun] a kind of small drum.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Ma, Dindi, Na.
Starts with (+0): Dindimalin, Dindiman, Dindimanaka, Dindimanava, Dindimanavaka, Dindimasadda, Dindimatva, Tintimakavi, Tintimam.
Full-text (+13): Dendima, Abhayadindima, Aravadindima, Bhayadindima, Vijayadindima, Vadhyadindima, Sadindimam, Mukhadindima, Vadadindima, Vedantadindima, Udghosha, Dindimatva, Kutumpadindima, Shamkaradigvijayadindima, Shamkaracaryavijayadindima, Udghoshadindima, Tintimam, Dindimeshvaratirtha, Tintimakavi, Kvaṇ.
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