Vandi, Vandī, Vamdi, Vaṇḍī: 14 definitions
Introduction:
Vandi means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali. 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 Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Vandī (वन्दी).—(BANDĪ, VĀNDĪNA). A scholar and scientist in the palace of King Janaka. He defeated the hermit Kahoḍaka in an argument and dipped him in water. (For further details see under Aṣṭāvakra).
Vandī (वन्दी) refers to a class of professional singers that once existed in ancient Kashmir (Kaśmīra) as mentioned in the Nīlamatapurāṇa.—The Nīlamata refers to four classes of professional singers viz. Sūta, Māgadha, Vandī and Cāraṇa who, according to the Dharmaśāstras, maintained themselves by lauding the deeds of others. Their mention in one and the same line indicates that some difference, may be minute, was believed to be existing in these different types of singers.
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.
General definition (in Hinduism)
Vandi : Court poet of Mithila who on being defeated by Sage Ashtavakra in debate drowned himself in the ocean and went to the abode of Varuna.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
vandi : (aor. of vandati) saluted; paid homage; honoured; adored.
1) vandi (ဝန္ဒိ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[vanda+ī．rassa-pru．vandi-saṃ．]
[ဝန္ဒ+ဤ။ ရဿ-ပြု။ ဝန္ဒိ-သံ။]
2) vandi (ဝန္ဒိ) [(kri) (ကြိ)]—
[vanda+ī]
[ဝန္ဒ+ဤ]
3) vandī (ဝန္ဒီ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[vanda+ṇī+vanda+ī．vīriyādithutiṃ sīlena yo paṭhati,so vandī．tassīlādīsuṇī．vandatīti vandī．ṭī．396．muñcanasaññāya vandatīti vandī．vanda abhivādana thutīsu,ī,rassopi,vandi．ṭī,4va7．vandī,va,ba-saṃ．vandate thavati narapālādinti vandi．kappadduma．]
[ဝန္ဒ+ဏီ+ဝန္ဒ+ဤ။ ဝီရိယာဒိထုတိံ သီလေန ယော ပဌတိ၊ သော ဝန္ဒီ။ တဿီလာဒီသုဏီ။ ဝန္ဒတီတိ ဝန္ဒီ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၃၉၆။ မုဉ္စနသညာယ ဝန္ဒတီတိ ဝန္ဒီ။ ဝန္ဒ အဘိဝါဒန ထုတီသု၊ ဤ၊ ရဿောပိ၊ ဝန္ဒိ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ၊၄ဝ၇။ဝန္ဒီ၊ဝန္ဒိန်၊ဗန္ဒိန်-သံ။ ဝန္ဒတေ ထဝတိ နရပါလာဒိန္တိ ဝန္ဒိ။ ကပ္ပဒ္ဒုမ။]
4) vaṇḍī (ဝဏ္ဍီ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[vaṇḍa+ī．itthijotaka ī-pa．]
[ဝဏ္ဍ+ဤ။ ဣတ္ထိလိင်ဇောတက ဤ-ပစ္စည်း။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) vandi—
(Burmese text): ရှိခိုးပြီ၊ ဦးညွှတ်ပြီ။
(Auto-Translation): It's really booming, U Nyuat has taken the lead.
2) vandi—
(Burmese text): သုံ့ရလူ (သုံ့ဖမ်း)။ ဝန္ဒီ ၂-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): Snatching people (snatching traps). Watch this 2- see.
3) vandī—
(Burmese text): (၁) စာဆိုတော်(မင်း၏ ရဲရင့်ခြင်း စသောဂုဏ်ကို ချီးကျူးတတ်သူ)။ (၂) သုံ့ရလူ (သုံ့ဖမ်း)။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Poet (one who is able to praise your nobility). (2) A thief (a thief who steals).
4) vaṇḍī—
(Burmese text): ဝဏ္ဍီမည်သော ဥပါသိကာ။ (နာရဒဘုရားသခင်၏ မြတ်သော အလုပ်အကျွေးမ)။
(Auto-Translation): The great work of the Lord Narada, known as the Upanishad.
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
Vandi (वन्दि) or Vandī (वन्दी).—f. [vand-in Uṇādi-sūtra 4.128] See बन्दी (bandī).
1) A female prisoner.
2) Prey, booty, spoil.
Derivable forms: vandiḥ (वन्दिः).
Vandi (वन्दि).—f. (-ndiḥ or ndī) 1. A captive, a prisoner, man or beast confined. 2. A ladder or stairs. E. vadi to praise, aff., in, ṅīp optionally added.
Vandi (वन्दि).—vandī, f. 1. A woman in captivity, also a man, [Bhaṭṭikāvya, (ed. Calc.)] 8, 32; 63; [Vikramorvaśī, (ed. Bollensen.)] [distich] 3 (vandī kṛ, To make captive). 2. A ladder or stairs.
Vandi can also be spelled as Vandī (वन्दी).
1) Vandi (वन्दि):—[from vand] See 1. 2. bandin.
2) Vandī (वन्दी):—[from vand] See 1. 2. bandin.
Vandi (वन्दि):—[(ndiḥ-ndī)] 2. 3. f. A captive, prisoner; a ladder.
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Vaṃdi (ವಂದಿ):—
1) [noun] a praiser; a panegyrist; an encomiast.
2) [noun] a person confined in a prison, as for some crime; a prisoner.
3) [noun] the act of looting; loot; plunder; booty.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Vandī (वन्दी):—n. 1. bard; minstrel; lyricist; 2. prisoner; captive;
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: The, The, Mi, Vanda, I, Te, Ni, Vandi.
Starts with (+9): Vandicaura, Vandigraha, Vandikara, Vandipala, Vandipatha, Vanti, Vanti-cetilatal, Vanticcattam, Vanticcavatu, Vantikkal, Vantikkaran, Vantikkattu, Vantikkatukkan, Vantikkil, Vantikkoluppu, Vantikkottakai, Vantikkutu, Vantimacaku, Vantimaci, Vantimai.
Full-text (+125): Vandikara, Vandigraha, Vandicaura, Vandipatha, Kavaraki, Ji shou, Vantimacaku, Vandipala, Vanti, Vanda, Vandayim, Tapalvanti, Mitivanti, Vantittatam, Vantippaita, Tukkuvanti, Talluvanti, Mincaravanti, Tuvi-cakkaravanti, Vandina.
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Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 1.12.36 < [Chapter 12 - Description of Śrī Nanda’s Festival]
Verse 1.12.38 < [Chapter 12 - Description of Śrī Nanda’s Festival]
Verse 6.5.17 < [Chapter 5 - The Kidnapping of Śrī Rukmiṇī]
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 391 < [Gujarati-Hindi-English, Volume 3]
Page 484 < [Hindi-Kashmiri-English Volume 2]
Page 501 < [Hindi-Sindhi-English Volume 2]
Further sources of Vijayanagara history (by K. A. Nilakanta Sastri)
Chapter 1 - Nature of the Sources < [Volume 1]
Chapter 2 - The history of Kampili < [Volume 1]
Page 371 < [Volume 2]
Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary) (by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja)
Verse 1.4.65 < [Chapter 4 - Bhakta (the devotee)]
Rama-caritabdhi-ratna of Nityananda Shastri (by Satya Vrat Shastri)
Puranic encyclopaedia (by Vettam Mani)