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    alāṇḍu

    See also alāṃḍuḥ, alāṇḍuḥ.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 86, col. 2.
    alāṇḍu alāṇḍu, us, m., N. of a small

    noxious insect or other animal.

    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 43.
    alā́ṇḍu m. a kind of vermin.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 94, col. 3.
    alā́ṇḍu m. N. of a noxious animal, AV. ii, 31, 2 and 3.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 460.
    alā́ṇḍu m. N. eines schädlichen Insects oder eines andern kleinen Thieres AV. 2, 31, 2. 3.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 117, col. 3.
    alā́ṇḍu m. eine Art Gewürm AV. 2,21,2.

    The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 38.
    Alāṇḍu. — This is the reading in the text of the Atharvaveda1

    of the name of a species of worm. Bloomfield2 shows reason

    to adopt the reading Algaṇḍu as the correct form of the word. [Footnote] 1) ii. 31, 2. [Footnote] 2) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 315.