आर्ध [ārdha] a. a. (Only used at the beginning of comp.) Half. -Comp.
-धातुक a. a. (-की f.) (In gram.) applicable to half the root or to the shorter form of the verbal base. (-कम्) a name given to those terminations and affixes which belong to the six non-conjugational or general tenses (opp. सार्व. धातुक); cf.
[P.III.4.114,] I.1.4; II.4,35;VII.2.35 &c.
-नारीश्वरम् The story of the lord Śiva in his form as अर्धनारीश्वर.
-प्रस्थिक, -कंसिकa. (-की f.) bought with half a Prastha or Kaṁsa.-मासिक a. (-की f.) lasting for half a month, observing or practising (penance &c.) for a fortnight.
-रात्रिकाः (pl.) N. of an astronomical school who reckoned the beginning of the motions of the planets from midnight.