arDacandra
ardhacandra , m. (? or nt. ; in Skt. half-moon, crescent , etc. ), ( 1 ) a kind of (presumably crescent-shaped) personal ornament (also °draka , q.v. ): LV 201.19 ; Mv ii.317.7 (here hung on the bodhi-tree); ( 2 ) as in Skt. acc. to Schmidt, Nachtr. , s.v. , from Haravijaya , a (crescent-shaped) decoration on a building ( Schmidt Torbogenschmuck ): Gv 167.16 °drā(ḥ), n. pl. ; 154.4, 202.23 (all prose).