[Buddha-l] Non attached & mindful culinary triumphalism?

[Artur Karp]

Joanna,

The MW quasi-etymological references (cáṇḍa from ? candrá) must be
treated with a large dose of circumspection. Consonantal clusters
built of nasals + retroflexives, like -ṇḍ-,  may point to non IE
origins of the words containing them.

For Indo-Aryan continuations of caṇḍa- see Turner's CDIAL, entries
4584,4585; of cāṇḍāla - 4740.

Best,

Artur