स्यन्दन

Sanskrit

Etymology

From स्यन्द (syanda, “flowing, running”), from √स्यद् (syad, “to move or flow rapidly, to stream, to run, to rush”).

Noun

स्यन्दन • (syandana) stem, n

1. flowing
2. chariot
   • c. 400 CE, Kālidāsa, Raghuvaṃśa 1.36:

     स्निग्धगम्भीरनिर्घोषमेकं स्यन्दनमाश्रितौ

     snigdhagambhīranirghoṣamekaṃ syandanamāśritau

     Mounting, soundless and alone, the fair and solemn chariot

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्यन्दन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1273.