ताण्डव mn. (
-वः-वं)
1. Dancing, especially with violent gesticulation, and particularly applied to the frantic dance of the god SIVA, and his votaries.
2. A sort of grass, (Saccharum procerum.)
m. (
-वः) In prosody, a tribrach or foot of three sort syllables.
E. तण्डु the name of the Muni, by whom the style of dancing was first taught, affix
अण्, or
तडि to beat, and
अव aff.