mf. () a lunar day (30th part of a whole lunation of rather more than 27 solar days;15 tithi-s, during the moon's increase, constitute the light half of the month and the other 15 the dark half;the auspicious tithi-s are nandā-, bhadrā-, vijayā-, pūrṇā-) etc.
As the name of a lunar day, the thirtieth part of a lunar month of rather over twenty-seven days, is only found in the later Sūtras, being completely unknown to the Brāhmanas, in which the only day is the natural one. See Māsa.
noun (masculine feminine) a lunar day (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the number 15 (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
(a color?) Frequency rank 3007/72933
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