The corpus record — Sanskrit

gandhān

gandha as, m. smell, odour (nine kinds are enumerated, viz. iṣṭa, aniṣṭa, madhura, kaṭu, nirhārin, saṃhata, snigdha, rūkṣa, viśada, MBh. xii, 6848 ; a tenth kind is called amla, L. ), RV. i, 162, 10 ; AV. ; VS. &c. ( ifc. f(ā). , MBh. ; BhP. )

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Where it lives

Aitareya Upanisad 1 · 2.06/10k
Bhagavad Gita 1 · 1.16/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. غَندهَ

2. غَندهَ

a fragrant substance, fragrance, scent, perfume (generally used in pl. ; in comp. = ‘fragrant’, cf. jala &c.), Gobh. ; Lāṭy. ; PārGṛ. &c.

3. غَندهَ

( ifc. ) the mere smell of anything, small quantity, little, MBh. i, 989 ; Pāṇ. v, 4, 136 ; Pat. ; Suśr. i, 13

In the wild

gandhāñ Aitareya Upanisad aitup_3.1
gandhān Bhagavad Gita 15.8
gandhāñ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_3,2.2

Where it came from

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. gandha (vol. 3, scan p. 619; entry #6949).

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.