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पौषध (pauSadha)

 
Apte
English
पौषधः [pauṣadhḥ], A fasting day.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पौषध
m.
(cf. पोषध) a fasting day,
Kalpas.
HPariś.
(also -दिन
n.
)
Apte Hindi
Hindi
पौषधः
पुं*
- -
उपवास का दिन
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
pauṣadha (HA), Sanskrit uposatha
living like a Jain monk
for 12 or 24 hours
the observance of fast on the eighth and
fourteenth of the fortnight, the full-moon day and the day
before the new moon and abstention from wicked acts, chastity,
abandonment of bathing, etc., i. e. living temporarily like a monk.
See poṣadha.