m. a ridge of earth, mound, bank, causeway, dike, dam, bridge, any raised piece of ground separating fields (serving as a boundary or as a passage during inundations) etc.
m. the forming of a causeway or bridge, a dam or bridge (especially the ridge of rocks extending from rāmeśvara- on the Southeastern coast of India to Ceylon, and supposed to have been formed by hanumat- as a bridge for the passage of rāma-'s army)
m.Name of various works (especially of the 13th chapter of the bhaṭṭi-kāvya- and of a Prakrit poem on the history of rāma-, also called rāma-setu-,or rāvaṇa-vaha-,attributed to pravarasena- and sometimes to kālidāsa-).
m. "lord of the bridge or causeway", an hereditary title belonging to the chiefs of Ramnad as controlling the passage of the channel between rāmeśvara- and Ceylon Seecolumn 2.
सेतुः [सि-तुन् Uṇ.1.69] 1 A ridge of earth, mound, bank, causeway, dam; नलिनीं क्षतसेतुबन्धनो जलसंघात इवासि विद्रुतः Ku.4.6; R.16.2. -2 A bridge in general; वैदेहि पश्या मलयाद्विभक्तं मत्सेतुना फेनिलमम्बुराशिम् R.13.2; सैन्यैर्बद्धद्विरदसेतुभिः 4.38;12.7; Ku.7.53. -3 A landmark; ज्येष्ठे मासि नयेत् सीमां सुप्रकाशेषु सेतुषु Ms.8.245. -4 A defile, pass, a narrow mountain-road. -5 A boundary, limit. -6 A barrier, limitation, obstruction of any kind; दुष्येयुः सर्ववर्णाश्च भिद्येरन् सर्वसेतवः Subhāṣ. -7 A fixed rule or law, an established institution; सूचकाः सेतुभेत्तारः ...... ते वै निरयगामिनः Mb.13.23.66. -8 The sacred syllable om; मन्त्राणां प्रणवः सेतुस्तत्सेतुः प्रणवः स्मृतः । स्रवत्यनोङ्कृतं पूर्वं परस्ताच्च विदीर्यते ॥ Kālikā P. -9 A reservoir or a lake; सहोदकं आहार्योदकं वा सेतुं बन्धयेत् Kau. A.2.1. -1 A bond, fetter. -11 An explanatory commentary. -Comp. -बन्धः 1 the forming or construction of a bridge, cause-way &c.; Kau. A.2.1; वयोगते किं वनिता- विलासो जले गते किं खलु सेतुबन्धः Subhāṣ.; Ku.4.6. -2 the ridge of rocks extending from the southern extremity of the Coromandel coast towards Ceylon (said to have been built for Rāma's passage to Laṅkā by Nala and the other monkeys); Bhāg.7.14.31. -3 any bridge or cause-way. -भेदिन् a. 1 breaking down barriers. -2 removing obstructions. (-m.) N. of a tree (दन्ती).
a. [√ 1. si] binding (RV., rare); m. RV.: bond, fetter (rare); V., C.: dam, dyke, causeway, bridge; C.: Adam's Bridge (rare); landmark (rare); (fig.) barrier, limit, bounds: -m bandh, construct a bridge: -ban dha, m. (construction of a) dam or bridge; T. of a Prâkrit poem; -bandhana, n. (con struction of) a bridge or dam; barrier (fig.); -bheda, m. breaking down of an embankment.
Appears in the Rigveda and later to denote merely a raised bank for crossing inundated land, a 'causeway,' such as are common all the world over. This sense explains best the later meaning of 'boundary.' The word in Vedic literature is probably always metaphorical.
noun (masculine) a bond (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a help to the understanding of a text (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a landmark (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a ridge of earth (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an established institution (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an explanatory commentary (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
any raised piece of ground separating fields (serving as a boundary or as a passage during inundations) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
bank (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
boundary (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
bridge (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Crataeva Roxburghii (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
causeway (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
dam (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
dike (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
fetter (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
fixed rule (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
limit (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
mound (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a place (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Babhru (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Druhyu and brother of Babhru (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Tapia Crataeva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the Praṇava or sacred syllable Om (which is said to be mantrāṇāṃ setuḥ) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a dam or bridge (esp. the ridge of rocks extending from Rāmeśvara to Ceylon) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of various wks. (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the forming of a causeway or bridge (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) a bridge or dam (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a limit (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
barrier (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Paurānic wk (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a causeway (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
bridge (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Crataeva Roxburghii (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a people Frequency rank 71418/72933
noun (masculine) name of a poem (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the ridge of coral rocks by which Rṝma crossed to Ceylon (now called Adam's bridge) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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