1. bändhu-
bändhu- m. Verwandter, Angehöriger; Verwandtschaft, Genossenschaft, nahe Verbindung, Beziehung (RV +), bandhuta- ! nahe Beziehung, Verwandtschaft (RV +), bandhumant- Verwandte habend {RV +), subandhu- von guter Sippe, gutt bändhura- - babhasa- 209 Verwandte habend (RV [10,61,26 u.a., s. GeRV III 231, ad 6b], AV), m. N. pr. (RV [10,59,8; 10,60,7.10]). - IAV, suba-an-du Name eines Prinzen aus Palästina (=RV subandhuN. … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. bändhu-, p. 238]
2. بَندهُ
bandhu m. connection, relation, association, RV. &c. &c. ( ifc. with f(ū). = belonging to, coming under the head of i.e. ‘being only in name’; cf. kṣatra, dvijab &c.; ‘resembling’, Bālar. v, 56/57 , ‘frequented by’, ib. iii, 20 , ‘favourable for’, ib. iv, 87 ; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 14 )
3. بَندهُ
a kinsman ( esp. on the mother's side), relative, kindred, RV. &c. &c. (in law, a cognate kinsman in a remote degree, one subsequent in right of inheritance to the Sa-gotra ; three kinds are enumerated, personal, paternal and maternal)
4. بَندهُ
of a Ṛṣi with the patr. Gaupāyana or Laupāyana (author of RV. v, 24 and x, 5660 ), RAnukr.