upArDa
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 ).