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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Gardula (गर्दुल) or Gardūra.—(m. or nt.; = Pali gaddula, °ūla, thong), (1) thong, bond: Lalitavistara 207.17 (prose) iha te bālā viparivartante kurkurā iva gardūla-(so read with some mss., v.l. gandūla, gadūla, etc.; Lefm. em. śardūla-)-baddhāḥ,…like dogs tied to a thong; Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā 218.6 (sattvānāṃ…) tṛṣṇā-gardūra-baddhānāṃ (so mss., ed. em. wrongly °gaṇḍura; compare Pali taṇhā-gaddūla-); (2) some kind of forest plant (perhaps one used in making thongs ?): as fuel for fire, parallel with araṇī, Śikṣāsamuccaya 248.6—7, text garbhala- (corrected in ms. to gardūla, which read) sahagatebhyo vā; eaten by ascetics, Lalitavistara 213.12 (verse) śāka-syāmāka-gardūla-bhakṣāś ca; 258.10 (verse) syāmāka- sāka-bhakṣā mṛṇāla-gardula-kaṇā-bhakṣāḥ (here short u could be m.c., but it occurs also in Pali gaddula).

Gardula can also be spelled as Gardūla (गर्दूल).

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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.

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