बिन्दु

Definitions

• a detached particle, drop, globule, dot, spot
• (with हिरण्यय (हिरण्यय)) a pearl
• a drop of water taken as a measure
• a spot or mark of coloured paint on the body of an elephant
• (grammar) (at the end of a compound also बिन्दुक (बिन्दुक)) the dot over a letter representing the anusvara (supposed to be connected with शिव (शिव) and of great mystical importance)
• a zero or cypher (in manuscripts put over an erased word to show that it ought not to be erased = "stet")
• a particular mark like a dot made in cauterizing
• a mark made by the teeth of a lover on the lips of his mistress
• a coloured mark made on the forehead between the eyebrows
• (in dramatic language) the sudden development of a secondary incident (which, like a drop of oil in water, expands and furnishes an important element in the plot)
• name of a man g. बिदादि (tr=bidā-di)
• name of an आङ्गिरस (आङ्गिरस) (author of RV. 8.83 and 9.30)
• name of the author of a रसपद्धति (tr=rasa-paddhati)
• (in the plural) name of a warrior tribe g. दामन्यादि (tr=dāmany-ādi)