anna gandhi

 In Sanskrit, anna‑gandhi means “dysentery” or “diarrhoea,” literally “having the smell of food/boiled rice.”

What the sources say

The term appears in Sanskrit dictionaries as annagandhi (अन्नगन्धि), defined consistently as “dysentery, diarrhoea”

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. It is a masculine noun.

Breakdown of the compound

• anna (अन्न) — “food,” especially “roasted grains,” “rice,” or “eatables”

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• gandhi (गन्धि) — “having a smell” (from gandha, “smell”).
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Thus anna + gandhi forms a bahuvrīhi compound meaning “one whose smell is like food/rice.”
The dictionary notes explicitly describe it as “smelling like boiled rice” in the sense of a disorder whose discharge has that odor

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Nuance and usage

• The term is used medically in classical Sanskrit to denote a type of diarrhoeal disease.
• It appears in multiple lexicons (Monier‑Williams, Trikāṇḍaśeṣa, etc.) with the same meaning

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• It is not a personal name; it is a technical medical term.
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Summary

anna gandhi (annagandhi) =

• Primary meaning: dysentery, diarrhoea
• Literal meaning: “having the smell of food/rice”
• Word type: masculine noun