gardula
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 vā; 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).