चान्द्रायण

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CĀNDRĀYAṆA   A penance. (See Vrata).

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : चंद्रायण, चांद्रायण

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

चान्द्रायण  m.  m. an observer of the moon's course ( चन्द्र्°), [TāṇḍyaBr. xvii, 13, 17] Sch.
pl. N. of a family, [Pravar. i, 2 and ii, 4, 1]
चान्द्रायण  n.  n. ( [Pāṇ. 5-1, 72]; scil. व्रत) a fast regulated by the moon, the food being diminished every day by one mouthful for the dark fortnight, and increased in like manner during the light fortnight ( cf. पिपीलिकामध्य, यव-मध्य or °ध्यम), [Mn. vi, 20]
xi, 41 and 106-217; [Yājñ. iii, 324 ff.]; [Pañcat. i, 11, 27; iii, 3, 2.]

Shabda-Sagara

चान्द्रायण  m.  ( -णः) A religious or expiatory observance regulated by the moon's age; diminishing the daily consumption of food every day, by one mouthful, for the dark half of the month beginning with fif- teen at the full moon, until is it reduced to one at the now moon, and then increasing it in like manner during the fortnight of the moon's increase: there are other forms of this penance.
E. चन्द्र the moon, and स्वार्थे अण् aff. चन्द्रस्य अयनमिव अयनमत्र .

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चन्द्र स्वार्थे अण् चन्द्रस्य अयनमिव अयनमत्र .