As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a group of trees or plants, wood, thicket (always ifc.; cf. vana and vṛkṣa-ṣ˚)
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the masculine and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
ṣaṇḍa m. n. (often written khaṇḍa, also v.l. or w.r. for śaṇḍa, ṣaṇḍha, and saṇḍa) a group of trees or plants, wood, thicket (always ifc. ; cf. vana and vṛkṣa-ṣ˚)
any group or multitude, heap, quantity, collection, BhP.
ṣaṇḍa m. a bull set at liberty (-tva n.), Uṇ. i, 101; 113, Sch. (cf. nīlaṣ˚)
ṣaṇḍa m. a breeding bull, L.
N. of a serpent-demon, TāṇḍyaBr.; Lāṭy.
Alternative readings
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