prAtihArakapakza
prātihāraka-pakṣa , m. (only once, Mmk 79.19 , is pakṣa not expressed), more rarely prati°, prātihāra-, °hārika- (= Pali pāṭihārika-pakkha or pāṭihāriya-p°, inaccurately defined PTSD ; the mg. is evidently related to that of prātihārya , q.v. , but quinzaine du miracle , Lalou, Iconographie 24 , is hardly likely to be the true mg. , tho it is the lit. mg. of the Tib. cited, cho phrul gyi … ), extraordinary, exceptional half-month . The Pali comms. vary greatly in their explanations; see citations in PTSD ; note specially AN comm. ii.234.25 ff. on AN i.144.2 (cited PTSD °hārika-, but actually °hāriya-) in contrast with Vv. comm. 71.26 ff. on Vv. 15 vs 6 (same stanza as in AN , wholly discordant glosses in comms. ; at least one of them clearly a baseless guess). Evidently the tradition of the true mg. was lost at an early time. In BHS noted only in Mmk , where it is fairly common, but I have found no evidence as to mg. , except that pakṣa has its usual mg. half-lunar-month (not holiday with PTSD ); this is proved by prātihāraka-pakṣa-pūrṇamāsyāṃ Mmk 669.19—20 , on the full-moon day of … Otherwise, usually °raka-pakṣe [Page392-a] Mmk 58.11 ; 75.10 ; 289.19 ; 669.22—23 (°rakapakṣe pūrṇamāsyāṃ); 675.28 ; 676.28 ; 715.6 , et alibi ; śuklapūrṇamāsyāṃ prātihāraka-pratipūrṇāyāṃ 79.19 , on the full-moon day of a bright fortnight, when (the moon) is full in a prātihāraka ( sc. pakṣa; the only case noted in which this is omitted); prātihārika-pakṣe 290.1 ; śuklapakṣe prātihārapakṣe vā 145.21 (prose; is the omission of -ka a mere corruption?), in a bright fortnight, or in a prāti° one ; pratihāraka-pakṣe 36.25 ; 675.7 ( foll. by śuklatrayodaśyāṃ; evidently the ‘extraordinary’ fortnight could be either ‘light’ or ‘dark’); pratihāraka-pakṣam ārabhya 675.22 (passages with prati° all prose).