1. a (small) stick, a twig; a staff, a rod; a handle DN.i.7 (a walking stick carried for ornament: see DN-a.i.89); Ja.i.120 (sukkha˚ a dry twig), Ja.ii.103; Ja.iii.26; Dhp-a.iii.171; Vism.353
   ■ aḍḍha˚; a (birch) rod, used as a means of beating (tāḷeti) AN.i.47 AN.ii.122 = MN.i.87 = Cnd.604 = Mil.197; ubhato˚; two handled (of a saw) MN.i.129 = MN.i.189; ratha˚; the flag-staff of a chariot Mil.27; veṇu˚; a jungle rope Ja.iii.204
   ■ See also kudaṇḍaka a twig used for tying Ja.iii.204.
2. the crossbar or bridge of a lute Ja.ii.252, Ja.ii.253.

• -dīpikā a torch Ja.i.31;
• -madhu “honey in a branch, a beehive Dhp-a.i.59.

Demin. of daṇḍa