बन्ध [ bandha ] [ bandhá ] m. binding , tying , a bond , tie , chain , fetter Lit. RV.

  a ligature , bandage Lit. Suśr.

  damming up (a river) Lit. MārkP.

  capture , arrest , imprisonment , custody Lit. Mn. Lit. MBh.

  connection or intercourse with (comp.) Lit. Pañcat. Lit. BhP. (ifc. = connected with , conducive to Lit. MBh.)

  putting together , uniting , contracting , combining , forming , producing Lit. MBh. Lit. Kāv.

  joining (the hollowed hands) Lit. Ragh.

  anything deposited ( [ °dhe-√ sthā ] = to remain deposited) Lit. Campak.

  a deposit , pledge Lit. Rājat.

  any configuration or position of the body (esp. of the hands and feet) Lit. Ragh. Lit. Kum.

  a partic. mode of sexual union (there are said to be 16 , 18 , 36 , or even 84 Lit. L.) , Lit. Caur.

  constructing , building (of a bridge ) Lit. MBh. Lit. Rājat.

  bridging over (the sea) Lit. Vcar.

  knitting (the brows) Lit. Rājat.

  fixing , directing (mind , eyes , ) Lit. Cat.

  assumption , obtainment (of a body) Lit. Ragh.

  (ifc.) conceiving , cherishing , feeling , betraying Lit. Hariv. Lit. Kālid.

  a border , framework , inclosure , receptacle Lit. L.

  a sinew , tendon Lit. L.

  the body Lit. L.

  (in phil.) mundane bondage , attachment to this world Lit. ŚvetUp. Lit. Bhag. ( opp. to [ mukti ] , [ mokṣa ] , " final emancipation " , and regarded in the Sāṃkhya as threefold , viz. [ prakṛti- ] , [ vaikārika- ] , and [ dakṣiṇā-b ] )

  combination of sounds ( in rhet.) , construction or arrangement of words Lit. Kāvyâd. Lit. Pratāp.

  arrangement of a stanza in a partic. shape Lit. Kpr.

  arrangement of musical sounds , composition Lit. Śatr.

  a disease which prevents the eyelids from quite closing Lit. Suśr.

  (ifc. with numerals) a part ( cf. [ pañca- ] , [ daśa-b ] ) .