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ताण्डव

   
Script: Devanagari

ताण्डव

हिन्दी (hindi) WN | Hindi  Hindi |   | 
   See : तांडव, तांडव

ताण्डव

A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
ताण्डव  mn. mn. (g.अर्धर्चा-दि; fr.तण्डु?) dancing (esp. with violent gesticulation), frantic dance (of शिव and his votaries), [Mālatīm.] ; [Kathās.] ; [BhP. x] ; [MatsyaP.] ; [Rājat.] &c. (cf.[RTL. p.84] )
   (in prosody) a tribrach
   Saccharum procerum, [L.]

ताण्डव

Shabda-Sagara | Sanskrit  English |   | 
ताण्डव  mn.  (-वः-वं)
   1. Dancing, especially with violent gesticulation, and particularly applied to the frantic dance of the god SIVA, and his votaries.
   2. A sort of grass, (Saccharum procerum.)
  m.  (-वः) In prosody, a tribrach or foot of three sort syllables.
   E. तण्डु the name of the Muni, by whom the style of dancing was first taught, affix अण्, or तडि to beat, and अव aff.
ROOTS:
तण्डु अण् तडि अव

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