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उपार्ध (upArdha)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
उपार्ध - upArdha -
n.
- first half
उपार्ध - upArdha -
n.
- half
Monier Williams Cologne
English
उपार्ध
n.
the first half Comm. on
ŚāṅkhGṛ.
vi, 1, 11
the half,
Lalit.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
upārdha, adj. and subst. nt. or m. (in Mv mss. written uparddha, semi-MIndic
= Pali upaḍḍha
cf. Ind. Stud. 〔15.160〕, last line, for an apparent Skt. occurrence), half, the half
adj. upārdhaṃ mārgaṃ Divy 〔144.11, 12〕, half the way
upārdhena dhanena Av 〔i.23.11〕
in cpds., upārdha-rājyam Divy 〔514.15, 16〕
uparddha-kāśiṃ (mss. °śi) Mv 〔iii.376.1〕, half a thousand, see kāśi, and cf. Uparddhakāśikā
[Page147-a] subst., usually with gen., rajanyā upārdhaṃ (n. sg.) LV 〔198.8〕, half of the night
ratnānāṃ upārdhaṃ dātavyam Av 〔i.23.15〕
upārdhaṃ brahmacaryasya Av 〔i.211.8〕
〔240.2 ff.〕
upārdhaṃ (sc. āhārasya
MSV °dho) bhikṣūṇāṃ pātre pataty upārdhaṃ (MSV ardho) bhūmāv iti Divy 〔86.15 (and ff.)〕 = MSV 〔i.85.20〕
with abl., upārdhu (read so, or upārdha
Lefm. upādhu with some mss.
acc. sg.) sarvarājyād LV 〔241.14〕 (vs)
in Mv 〔i.49.12〕 uparddhasya is obscure (adverb? Senart par moitié) but is prob. to be taken somehow with the following ṇumeral caturaśīti (otherwise Senart).
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
उपार्ध 3. ungefähr die Hälfte, Āpast. Śr. 15, 2, 7.