घण्ट

{ ghaṇṭa }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

GHAṆṬA   I. A brahmin born in Vasiṣṭha's family. He spent hundred years worshipping Śiva. Once Ghaṇṭa asked sage Devala to give his daughter in marriage to him. But Ghaṇṭa's ugliness stood in the way. So he abducted the daughter of the sage and married her. Enraged at this Devala cursed and turned him into an owl. He was also given redemption from the curse that he would regain his form the day he helped Indradyumna. [Skanda Purāṇa] .
GHAṆṬA II   See under Ghaṇṭākarṇa.

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : घंटा, घंट

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

घण्ट  m.  m. (for हन्त्र?) N. of शिव, [MBh. xii, 10377 and 10419]; [Hariv. 14884] ( cf. घटिन्)
मत्स्य   a kind of dish (sort of sauce, vegetables made into a pulp and mixed with turmeric and mustard seeds and capsicums; cf.-), [W.]
N. of a दानव, [Kathās. cxxi, 229]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

घण्ट [ghaṇṭa] a.  a. Shining, splendid
ण्टः N. of Śiva.
A kind of sauce, a kind of dish. -Comp.
-फलकः   a shield with a ringing sound.

Shabda-Sagara

घण्ट  m.  ( -ण्टः) A sort of sauce, vegetables made into a pulp with water, turmeric, mustard seeds and capsicums.
 f.  ( -ण्टा)
1. A bell; also a plate of iron or mixed metal struck as a bell.
2. A plant: see घण्टापाटली
E. घन to strike, क्त affix, fem. टाप् and deriv. irr.

ROOTS:

घन क्त टाप्