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गर्दुल (gardula)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
gardula, gardūra, gardūla (m. or nt.
= Pali gaddula, °ūla, thong),
(1) thong, bond: LV 〔207.17〕 (prose) iha te bālā viparivartante kurkurā iva gardūla-(so read with some mss., v.l. gandūla, gadūla, etc.
Lefm. em. śardūla-)-baddhāḥ, like dogs tied to a thong
MadhK 〔218.6〕 (sattvānāṃ …) tṛṣṇā-gardūra-baddhānāṃ (so mss., ed. em. wrongly °gaṇḍura
cf. Pali taṇhā-gaddūla-)
(2) some kind of forest plant (perhaps one used in making thongs?): as fuel for fire, parallel with araṇī, Śikṣ 〔248.6—7〕, text garbhala- (corrected in ms. to gardūla, which read) sahagatebhyo
eaten by ascetics, LV 〔213.12〕 (vs) śāka-syāmāka-gardūla-bhakṣāś ca
〔258.10〕 (vs) syāmākasāka-bhakṣā mṛṇāla-gardula-kaṇā-bhakṣāḥ (here short u could be m.c., but it occurs also in Pali gaddula).