What is "chanda"

In Hinduism, Chanda and Munda are asuras (demons) in the service of the demon-kings Sumbha and Nisumbha that the goddess Chamunda killed.

Chanda is a poetic meter in Sanskrit.

Chanda may also refer to:

• Chanda (Buddhism), a type of desire that can be wholesome
• Chanda (monster), a mythological demon in Hinduism
• Chanda (fish), a fish genus
• Chanda (film), a 2007 Kannada film
• Chanda, now Chandrapur, a city in Maharashtra in India

Chanda (Sanskrit, Pali; Tibetan: ‘dun pa) is translated as "intention", "interest", or "desire to act". It is defined as trying to possess a certain object–an interest or desire that supports the application of exertion. Chanda is identified within the Buddhist Abhidharma teachings as follows:

• One of the six occasional mental factors in the Theravada Abhidharma; in this tradition, chanda is a factor that can have positive or negative result depending upon the mental factors that it is co-joined with.
• One of the Ten mahā-bhūmika in Sarvastivada Abhidharma.
• One of the five object-determining mental factors in the Mahayana Abhidharma; that is a factor that grasps the specification of the object.
• One of the eight antidotes applied to overcome obstacles in Samatha meditation within the Mahayana tradition.

Chanda is a 2007 Kannada-language film directed by S. Narayan and produced by Smt. Bhagyavathi and starred Duniya Vijay and Shubha Punja.