ardhacandra (1945)
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Entry 1945, Page 67, Col. 1 -
(arDacandra, arDacandra)
ardhacandra¦, m. (? or nt.; in Skt. half-moon, crescent, etc.), (1) a kind of (presumably crescent-shaped) personal ornament (also °draka, q.v.): LV 201.19; Mv ii.317.7 (here hung on the bodhi-tree); (2) as in Skt. acc. to Schmidt, Nachtr., s.v., from Haravijaya, a (crescent-shaped) de- coration on a building (Schmidt Torbogenschmuck): Gv 167.16 °drā(ḥ), n. pl.; 154.4, 202.23 (all prose).