índu m. (√und Uṇ. i, 13
• probably fr. ind = √und, 'to drop' [see p. 165, col. 3, and cf. índra]
• perhaps connected with bindu, which last is unknown in the Ṛig-veda BRD.), Ved. a drop (especially of Soma), Soma RV. AV. VS.
• a bright drop, a spark TS.
• the moon
• (avas), m. pl. the moons, i.e. the periodic changes of the moon
• time of moonlight, night
RV. MBh. Śak. Megh. &c
• (us), m. camphor Bhpr.
• the point on a die AV. vii, 109, 6
• N. of Vāstoshpati RV. vii, 54, 2
• a symbolic expression for the number 'one'
• designation of the Anusvāra
• a coin L. (In the Brāhmaṇas, indu is used only for the moon
• but the connexion between the meanings 'Soma juice' and 'moon' in the word indu has led to the same two ideas being transferred in classical Sanskṛit to the word soma, although the latter has properly only the sense 'Soma juice.')