Kurundi, Kurundī: 8 definitions

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Kurundi means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, biology. 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.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

A village in Ceylon. Cv.lxxxiii.16; lxxxviii.64; Cv.Trs.ii.149, n.9.

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names
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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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Biology (plants and animals)

Kurundi in India is the name of a plant defined with Pongamia pinnata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cajum pinnatum Kuntze (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Flora of Bilaspur District, Madhya Pradesh (1989)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1788)
· Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (1971)
· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· FBI (1876)
· Jard. Malmaison (1803)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Kurundi, for example extract dosage, health benefits, side effects, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, chemical composition, have a look at these references.

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)
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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.

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Kurundi in Pali glossary

Kurundī, N. of one of the lost SS commentaries on the Vinaya, used by Buddhaghosa (cp. Vin. Texts I. 258; II, 14). (Page 222)

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

1) kurundī (ကုရုန္ဒီ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[kurundī+ṇa+ī.,4.2va.varaṇaç godoç pañcālā saddā aa rekhaç godāvarīç pañcālāhūso asā homa,varaṇā godāvarīrvā pañcālājana hohu pāṇiniç candraç kātantacharā sa īkurundīsaddā mukhyaç aṭṭhakathāṭhānūpacā hoeieahu yū ta ma,a,3.sya.19-amhā .]
[ကုရုန္ဒီ+ဏ+ဤ။ မောဂ်၊၄။၂ဝ။ ဝရဏ,ဂေါဒေါ,ပဉ္စာလာ သဒ္ဒါများသည် အစဉ်အတိုင်း ရေခတက်,ဂေါဒါဝရီမြစ်,ပဉ္စာလာမင်းဟူသော အနက်များကိုသာ ဟောသည်မဟုတ်၊ ဝရဏာမြို့ ဂေါဒါဝရီရွာ ပဉ္စာလာဇနပုဒ်များကိုလည်း ဟောသည်ဟု ပါဏိနိ,စန္ဒြ,ကာတန္တဆရာတို့ ဆိုသကဲ့သို့ ဤကုရုန္ဒီသဒ္ဒါသည်လည်း ကျောင်းကိုမုချ,အဋ္ဌကထာကိုဌာနူပစာအားဖြင့် ဟော၏ဟု ယူလျှင်လည်း တဒ္ဓိတ်ခွဲခွဲဘို့ လိုမည်မထင်၊ အကျယ်ကိုမောဂ်၊ ၃။သျ။၁၉-အမှာ ကြည့်။]

2) kurundī (ကုရုန္ဒီ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[kurundī+vallivihāra]
[ကုရုန္ဒီ+ဝလ္လိဝိဟာရ]

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

[Pali to Burmese]

1) kurundī—

(Burmese text): ကုရုန္ဒီဝလ္လိကျောင်း။ ကုရုန္ဒီ-(၂)-ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): Kurundi Village. Kurundi - (2) View.

2) kurundī—

(Burmese text): ကုရုန္ဒိဝလ္လိကျောင်း၌-ပြုစု-ရေးသား-အပ်သော (ကုရုန္ဒီအဋ္ဌကထာ)။

(Auto-Translation): Written by (Kuron De Atthakattha) at the Kurondawali Monk School.

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)
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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.

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Marathi-English dictionary

kurundī (कुरुंदी).—a Made of or relating to the stone kurunda.

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kurundī (कुरुंदी).—f A small sickle smaller than the kōyatī.

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary
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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Kuruṇḍi (कुरुण्डि):—m. Name of a Ṛṣi in the third Manv-antara, [Viṣṇu-purāṇa]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kuruṇḍi (कुरुण्डि):—m. Nomen proprium eines Ṛṣi im 3ten Manvantara [VP.².,3,7.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung
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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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