Tundila, Tuṇḍila, Tumdila: 17 definitions
Introduction:
Tundila means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, Hindi. 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)
Brother of the courtesan Kali. He was a neer do well, and Kali, having helped him with money which he proceeded to squander, refused to give him any more. But a patron of Kali, seeing his condition, gave him his clothes on entering Kalis house - it being the custom for those who patronised a courtesan, to be provided with clothes during their stay in her house - and had to walk away naked. J.iv.248f.
Tundila - A parrot, who had a tiger as friend. For their story see Ras.i.36.
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).
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
tundila (तुंदिल).—a S Having a paunch or protuberant belly; corpulent or gorbellied.
tundila (तुंदिल).—a Gorbellied, corpulent.
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
Tuṇḍila (तुण्डिल).—a. [tuṇḍ-bha, sidhmā° lac vā]
1) Talkative, loquacious.
2) Having a prominent navel.
3) Talking severely; cf. तुन्दिल (tundila).
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Tundila (तुन्दिल).—a.
1) Having a protuberant belly.
2) Corpulent.
3) Filled or laden with; मकरन्दतुन्दिलानामरविन्दानामयं महामान्यः (makarandatundilānāmaravindānāmayaṃ mahāmānyaḥ) Bv.1.6.
4) Great, N.2.89.
-tundilaḥ The god Gaṇeśa.
See also (synonyms): tundika, tundita, tundin, tundibha.
Tuṇḍila (तुण्डिल).—mfn.
(-laḥ-lā-laṃ) 1. Having a prominent or elevated navel. 2. Speaking harshy or severely. E. tuṇḍi the navel, and la affix; also tundila, &c.
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Tundila (तुन्दिल).—See tuṇḍila, &c.
Tuṇḍila (तुण्डिल).—[adjective] having a prominent navel.
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Tundila (तुन्दिल).—[adjective] having a large belly.
1) Tuṇḍila (तुण्डिल):—[from tuṇḍibha > tuṇḍa] mfn. idem, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) [v.s. ...] talkative, [Uṇādi-sūtra i, 55 [Scholiast or Commentator]]
3) [v.s. ...] See tund.
4) Tundila (तुन्दिल):—[from tunda] mfn. (117) idem, [Śāṅkhāyana-gṛhya-sūtra iv, 19, 3] ([varia lectio] tuṇḍ), [Mānava-gṛhya-sūtra ii, 10; Harṣacarita] (also a- [negative])
5) [v.s. ...] = tuṇḍibha, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) [v.s. ...] m. Gaṇeśa, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]
1) Tuṇḍila (तुण्डिल):—[(laḥ-lā-laṃ) a. Idem;] speaking sharply, or severely.
2) Tundila (तुन्दिल):—[(laḥ-lā-laṃ) a. Idem.]
Tuṇḍila (तुण्डिल):—[Uṇādisūtra 1, 55.] adj.
1) plauderhaft, geschwätzig [UJJVAL.] —
2) = tuṇḍibha einen hervorstehenden Nabel habend [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 2, 12.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 458.] — Vgl. tundila .
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Tundila (तुन्दिल):—adj. von tunda [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 2, 117.] [UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 4, 98.] dickbäuchig [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 1, 44.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 450.] = tuṇḍila einen hervorstehenden Nabel habend [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 458, v. l.] [Vyutpatti oder Mahāvyutpatti 206.] — piṣṭasya kṛtvaindrāgnastundilaḥ (? v.l. tuṇḍilaḥ, Schol. = puruṣākṛtiḥ) [Śāṅkhāyana’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 4, 19.]
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Tundila (तुन्दिल):—in einer Inschr. [Colebrooke II, 311, 10] fehlerhaft für cañcalā; vgl. [Journ. of the Am. Or. S. 7, 43.]
Tuṇḍila (तुण्डिल):—Adj. —
1) dass. [Śāṅkhāyana’s Gṛhyasūtra 4,19.] —
2) *plauderhaft , geschwätzig.
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Tundila (तुन्दिल):——
1) Adj. — a) dickbäuchig [Śāṅkhāyana’s Gṛhyasūtra 4,19] ( tuṇḍila v.l.) [Mānavagṛhyasūtra 2,10.] [Harṣacarita 200,3.] — b) = tundibha 2). —
2) *m. Beiname Gaṇeśa’s [Galano's Wörterbuch]
Tundila (तुन्दिल) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Tuṃdila, Tuṃdilla.
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.
Hindi dictionary
Tuṃdila (तुंदिल) [Also spelled tundil]:—(a) paunchy, pot-bellied; hence ~[tā] (nf).
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Tuṃdila (तुंदिल) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Tundila.
Tuṃdila has the following synonyms: Tuṃdilla.
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
Tuṃḍila (ತುಂಡಿಲ):—[noun] = ತುಂದಿಲ [tumdila]2.
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Tuṃdila (ತುಂದಿಲ):—
1) [adjective] having a potbelly; pot-bellied.
2) [adjective] being excessive or available in plenty; plentiful; excessive.
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Tuṃdila (ತುಂದಿಲ):—
1) [noun] a man with protuberant belly; a pot-bellied man.
2) [noun] the quality or condition of being plentiful.
3) [noun] a man with protuberant, bulging navel.
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Tuṃdila (ತುಂದಿಲ):—[noun] the plant Mucuna Pruritus (= M. Puriens) of Papilionaceae family; (?).
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Tuṃdiḷa (ತುಂದಿಳ):—[adjective] = ತುಂದಿಲ [tumdila]1.
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Tuṃdiḷa (ತುಂದಿಳ):—[noun] = ತುಂದಿಲ [tumdila]2.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Tuṇḍila (तुण्डिल):—adj. 1. talkative; loquacious; 2. having a prominent navel;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
Pali-English dictionary
tuṇḍila (တုဏ္ဍိလ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[tuṇḍa+ila.tuṭaṃ assa atthīti tuṇḍilo.chakkani,tuṇḍila,ṭī.pe.(-rū.398).]
[တုဏ္ဍ+ဣလ။ တုဋံ အဿ အတ္ထီတိ တုဏ္ဍိလော။ ဆက္ကနိပါတ်၊ တုဏ္ဍိလဇာတ်၊ ဋီ။ ပေ။ (-ရူ။ ၃၉၈)။]
[Pali to Burmese]
tuṇḍila—
(Burmese text): နှုတ်သီး-ရှိ-ကောင်း-သော၊ သူ၊ (က) တုဏ္ဍိလဝက်။ (ခ) တုဏ္ဍိလ-အမည်ရှိသော (ကာဠီပြည့်တန်ဆာမ၏ မောင်)။
(Auto-Translation): A good-natured person, (a) Tondilawka. (b) Tondil, named after (the brother of Kahlipyatansa).

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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Tundila Jataka, Tundilamu, Tundilaphala, Tundilovada.
Full-text (+2): Tundila Jataka, Culatundila, Mahatundila, Tundilovada, Tundilaphala, Tundibha, Tundita, Tundika, Tundil, Tumdilla, Tundin, Tumdilodara, Culla Tundila, Tondela, Tundilita, Tundavant, Tuntulam, Tundilikarana, Sukara, Tundadi.
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Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
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Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Dhammapada (Illustrated) (by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero)
Verse 65 - The Story of Thirty Monks from Pāṭheyyaka < [Chapter 5 - Bāla Vagga (Fools)]
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