Gandusa, Gamdusa, Gamdusha, Gaṇḍūsa, Gaṇḍusa, Gaṇḍūṣa, Gaṇḍūṣā, Gandusha: 22 definitions
Introduction:
Gandusa 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.
The Sanskrit terms Gaṇḍūṣa and Gaṇḍūṣā can be transliterated into English as Gandusa or Gandusha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष).—A son of Śūra and a brother of Vasudeva; Issueless adopted Cārūdeṣṇa and Sāmbha, sons of Kṛṣṇa.*
- * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 71. 150 and 191: Vāyu-purāṇa 96. 148, 188. Viṣṇu-purāṇa IV. 14. 30.
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.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष) refers to the “part of an elephant situated above the trunk tips”, according to the 15th century Mātaṅgalīlā composed by Nīlakaṇṭha in 263 Sanskrit verses, dealing with elephantology in ancient India, focusing on the science of management and treatment of elephants.—[Cf. chapter 6, “on determination of measurements”]: “9. Above the trunk tips, the gaṇḍūṣa. But the ridge over the eye is the īṣikā. The outer corner of the eye is the niryāṇa. But the root of the ear is the cūlikā (‘little crest’)”.
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष) refers to a “gargle”, and is mentioned in verse 2.6 of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Sūtrasthāna) by Vāgbhaṭa.—Accordingly, “one shall then turn to a sternutatory, a gargle [gaṇḍūṣa], an inhalant, and betel; betel (is) unwholesome [apathyaṃ 7 b] for those affected with pulmonary rupture, hemorrhage, and eyes irritated by roughness”.
Note: Gaṇḍūṣa (“gargle”) has been paraphrased by mkhur-bkaṅ-dor, meaning roughly “that which one spits out [dor, from ’dor-ba after having filled [bkaṅ, from ’geṅs-pa] one’s cheeks”; mkhur(-ba), of which ’khur in NP is a rare alternative spelling (v. Lokesh Chandra, Diet. II p. 305, s. v. mkhur-thsos), corresponds to Sanskrit gaṇḍa.
Gaṇḍūṣa (“gargle”) is also mentioned in verse 4.18.—Accordingly, “[...] Erysipelas, urticaria, leprosy itching of the eyes, jaundice, and fever as well as cough, dyspnea, palpitation of the heart, freckles of the face, and swellings of the skin (result) from (suppressed) vomiting. A gargle [viz., gaṇḍūṣa], an inhalant, a fast, after one has eaten pungent (food)—its ejection, gymnastics, a bloodletting, and a purgative (are) commended in this case”.
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष):—Filling the mouth to its full capacity with liquid(medicinal decoctions / luke warm water / medicinal oils) without allowing its movement.
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष) is the name of a plant mentioned in connection with a Tantric ceremony, according to the Vajraḍākatantra chapter 38.—Five techniques to please Dūtīs as well as the Yogin himself and to enlarge a Yogin’s gentials are introduced. Various kinds of woods and plants in addition to honey and butter are utilized for this purpose. [...] If a Yogin crushes gaṇḍūṣa and lakṣaṇa (according to the commentary they are names of plants), cooks them with sesame oil and rubs it on his foot, he will be praised by Dūtīs.
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 (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
gaṇḍūsa : (m.) a mouthful.
Gaṇḍusa, (cp. Sk. gaṇḍūṣa) a mouthful J.I, 249 (khīra°). (Page 241)
1) gaṇḍusa (ဂဏ္ဍုသ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[gaḍi+uīsa．(gaṇḍūga-saṃ)]
[ဂဍိ+ဦသ။ (ဂဏ္ဍူဂ-သံ)]
2) gaṇḍūsa (ဂဏ္ဍူသ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[gaḍi+uīsa．(gaṇḍūga-saṃ)]
[ဂဍိ+ဦသ။ (ဂဏ္ဍူဂ-သံ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) gaṇḍusa—
(Burmese text): (၁) ငုံခြင်း။ (၂) ဝဲအိုင်းအနာ။ ဂဏ္ဍူသ,ဂဏ္ဍူသတေလ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Burping. (2) Lingering pain. Sickness, symptoms - observe.
2) gaṇḍūsa—
(Burmese text): (၁) ငုံခြင်း။ (၂) ဝဲအိုင်းအနာ။ ဂဏ္ဍုသ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Snoring. (2) Wounds or sores in the mouth. Look at the symptoms.
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
gaṇḍūṣa (गंडूष).—m (S) A mouthful of water taken to gargle or rinse. v ghē. 2 Such gargling or rinsing. v kara.
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
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष) or Gaṇḍūṣā (गण्डूषा).—
1) A mouthful, handful (of water); गजाय गण्डूषजलं करेणुः (gajāya gaṇḍūṣajalaṃ kareṇuḥ) (dadau) Kumārasambhava 3.37; Uttararāmacarita 3.16; Māl. 9.34; गण्डूषजलमात्रेण शफरी फर्फरायते (gaṇḍūṣajalamātreṇa śapharī pharpharāyate) Udb.
2) The tip of an elephant's trunk; Mātaṅga L.
3) A mouthful, handful in general.
4) A kind of liquor (madya); पलाण्डु- गण्डूषयुतान् खादन्ती चैडकान्बहून (palāṇḍu- gaṇḍūṣayutān khādantī caiḍakānbahūna) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 8.44.28.
-gaṇḍūṣīkṛ To swallow in one draught; तस्य जह्नुः सुतो गङ्गां गण्डूषीकृत्य योऽपिबत् (tasya jahnuḥ suto gaṅgāṃ gaṇḍūṣīkṛtya yo'pibat) Bhāgavata 9.15.3.
Derivable forms: gaṇḍūṣaḥ (गण्डूषः).
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष) or Gaṇḍūśika or Gaṇḍūmika.—see kaṇḍūsika.
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष).—mf.
(-ṣaḥ-ṣā) 1. A mouthful. 2. A handful. 3. A handful of water, &c. held in the hollowed palm of the hand for rincing the mouth, &c. 4. Filling the mouth, rincing it, &c. 5. The tip of an elephant’s trunk. E. gaḍ to drop, ūṣaṇ Unadi affix and num inserted.
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष).— (akin to gaṇḍa), m. and f. ṣā. 1. A mouthful, [Daśakumāracarita] in
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष).—[masculine] [neuter] a mouthful of water or any other liquid (for rinsing the mouth or drinking); draught, gulp. —peya [adjective] to be drunk by gulps, to be devoured ([figuratively]).
1) Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष):—mfn. rarely n. (f., [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]) a mouthful of water, water etc. held in the hollowed palm of the hand for rinsing the mouth, draught, nip, [Mahābhārata viii, 2051; Suśruta; Kumāra-sambhava iii, 37; Skanda-purāṇa] etc.
2) filling or rinsing the mouth, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) m. the tip of an elephant’s trunk, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) Name of a son of Śūra and brother of Vasu-deva, [Harivaṃśa 1927 and 1939; Viṣṇu-purāṇa iv, 14, 10.]
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष):—[(ṣaḥ-ṣā)] 1. m. f. A mouthful; a handful; a handful of water; rincing the mouth; tip of the elephant’s trunk.
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष):—
1) m. f. [Die Uṇādi-Affixe 4, 79.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 5, 18.] gaṇḍūṣā f. [Amarakoṣa 3, 6, 1, 10.] Zu belegen nur das m. ein Mundvoll Wasser u.s.w., Mittel zum Ausspülen des Mundes, Gurgelwasser: apāṃ dvādaśagaṇḍūpairmukhaśuddhirvidhīyate [Sārasundarī] zu [Amarakoṣa im Śabdakalpadruma] gaṇḍūṣadhāraṇa [Suśruta 1, 192, 20. 379, 6.] snehagaṇḍūpa [2, 34, 21. 126, 2. 136, 18. 208, 17. 241, 17. 425, 19.] palāṇḍugaṇḍūṣayutāṃkhādantī caiḍakānbahūn [Mahābhārata 8, 2051.] tasya jahnuḥ suto gaṅgāṃ gaṇḍūpīkṛtya yo pibat [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 15, 3.] Nach den Lexicographen: m. = mukhapūraṇa oder pūrti [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Hārāvalī 206.] = prasṛta oder prasṛti [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 598] (nach dem Schol. auch f.). [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] = pramita [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] = unmita (nach [Śabdakalpadruma] bildet prasṛtonmita nur eine Bed.) [Medinīkoṣa] die Spitze des Elephantenrüssels [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] Die letzte Bed. kann aus der folg. Stelle gefolgert worden sein: dadau rasātpaṅkajareṇugandhi gaṇḍūṣajalaṃ kareṇuḥ ([Stenzler]: aquam e proboscide sua) [Kumārasaṃbhava 3, 37.] Das f. gaṇḍūṣā bed. nach [BHAGIN im Śabdakalpadruma] : mukhapūrṇatoya (sic!), nach [RĀYAM.] : mukhapūraṇa . —
2) m. Nomen proprium eines Sohnes von Śūra und Bruders von Vasudeva [Harivaṃśa 1927. 1939.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 437.]
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Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष):—
1) m. [Halāyudha 4, 100.] mukhamadhu [Daśakumāracarita] in [Benfey’ Chrestomathie aus Sanskritwerken 194, 5.] [Spr. 2779] (neutr.). tatpuṇyaṃ syācchataguṇaṃ gaṅgāgaṇḍūṣapānataḥ [KĀŚĪKH. 27, 103.] gaṇḍūṣā dvādaśa grāhyā mukhasya pariśuddhaye [?35, 78 (nach AUFRECHT). HĀLA 273.] vidhi [Oxforder Handschriften 304,b,41. 315,a,5 v. u.] Füge noch Schluck hinzu.
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष):——
1) m. (*f. ā) und n. ([Indische sprüche 6043]) ein Mundvoll Wasser u.s.w. , im Munde befindliche Flüssigkeit [Harṣacarita 64,13.] Schluck ; Mittel zum Ausspülen des Mundes ( māstu [Harṣacarita 122,8]), Gurgelwasser. —
2) m. — a) *die Spitze des Elephantenrüssels. — b) Nomen proprium eines Sohnes des Śūra.
Gaṇḍūṣa (गण्डूष) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Gaṃḍūsa.
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) Gaṃḍūsa (गंडूस) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Gaṇḍūṣa.
2) Gaṃḍūsa (गंडूस) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Gaṇḍūṣa.
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
Gaṃḍūṣa (ಗಂಡೂಷ):—
1) [noun] the act of rinsing the mouth.
2) [noun] a mouthful of water used for rinsing.
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: Gadi.
Starts with: Gamdusamtati, Gamdushaili, Gamdushamgai, Gandusatela, Gandushapatra, Gandushay, Gandushaya.
Full-text (+14): Khiragandusa, Gandusatela, Carudeshna, Dhatriphaladigandusha, Kandusika, Sucaru, Gandumika, Gandushika, Gandushapatra, Gandushaya, Gandushikri, Gandola, Dhatriphala, Cali, Tashta, Akshikutaka, Karnamula, Niryana, Ropana, Gokarna.
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