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    amāvāsyā

    Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 61.
    amāvāsyā f. (-syā) Day of conjunction or new moon.

    E. amā with, (the sun and moon,) vasa to abide, ṇyat affix: or with the penult. vowel short, amāvasyā; also amāvasī, &c.

    Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 47, col. 2.
    amāvāsyā (syā) 1. f. Idem.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 76, col. 1.
    amāvāsyā amā-vāsyā, f. (fr. rt. vas, ‘to

    dwell,’ with amā, ‘together,’ i. e. rātri, night of new

    moon), the first day of the first quarter on which the

    moon is invisible; a sacrifice offered at that time; the

    sacrificial cake ?; (as, ā, am), or amā-vāsyaka, as,

    ā, am, produced in a night of new moon.

    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 37.
    amāvā°syā́ f. (± rātri) the night of the new moon (lit. of the cohabitation or conjunction, scil. of sun and moon).

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 81, col. 2.
    amā—vāsyā̂ a (-vāsyā̂), f. (scil. rātri; fr. √ 5. vas, ‘to dwell’, with amā́, ‘together’) the night of new moon (when the sun and moon ‘dwell together’), the first day of the first quarter on which the moon is invisible, AV.; ŚBr. &c.
    ☞ p. 81, col. 2.
    a sacrifice offered at that time
    ☞ p. 81, col. 2.
    N. of the Acchodā river, MatsyaP.
    ☞ p. 81, col. 3.
    amā-vāsyā́ b See ib.

    Śabdasāgara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 50, col. 2.
    amāvāsyā

    f. (-syā) Day of conjunction or new moon.

    E. amā with, (the
    sun and moon,) vasa to abide, ṇyat affix: or with the penult. vowel
    short, amāvasyā; also amāvasī, &c.

    Abhidhānaratnamālā of Halāyudha

    ☞ p. 14.
    amāvāsyā;
    śaśini sinīvālī syāddṛṣṭe naṣṭe kuhūramāvāsyā .
    1.1.1.112

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 321, col. 2.
    amāvāsyā is an alternate of amāvasyā. amāva(vā)syā amā saha vasataścarndrārkau yasyām ni0 . kṛṣṇa-
    pakṣīyapañcadaśītithau . tathā hi adhaḥ pradeśavarttī
    śīghragāmī candraḥ, ūrddhvapradeśavarttī mandagāmī sūryyaḥ .
    tayorgativiśeṣāt yatkāle candramaṇḍalamanyūnamanati-
    riktaṃ sat sūryyamaṇḍalasyādhobhāge vyavasthitam bhavati
    tadā sūryyaraśmibhiḥ sākalyenābhibhūtatvāt candramaṇḍalamī-
    ṣadapi na dṛśyate iti kṛṣṇapakṣe pañcadaśakalākriyākūṭo-
    palakṣitaḥkālaḥ amāvasyeti niṣkarṣaḥ . “sūryyācandramasoḥ
    yaḥ paro viprakarṣaḥ sā paurṇamāsī ryaḥ paraḥsannikarṣaḥ
    sā'māvasyeti” gobhi0 “amāvasyā guruṃ hanti śiṣyaṃ
    hanti caturdaśī” manuḥ . amāvāsyāyāṃbhavaḥ vā kvun amā-
    vāsyakaḥ aṇ āmāvasyaḥ . tatrabhave tri0 . “ya āgāre
    mṛgayante pratikrośe'māvāsye” atha0 36, 3

    Śabdakalpadruma

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 85.
    amāvāsyā , strī, (amā saha candrārkau vasato yatra
    tithau sā, amā + vasa + ādhāre ṇyat, striyāṃ
    ṭāp . ṇitvāt vṛddhiḥ .) amāvasītithiḥ .
    ityamaraḥ ..

    The Purāṇa Index

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 83.
    Amāvāsyā — the time when Pitṛs worship moon and

    when the sun, moon and constellations meet together in the

    same maṇḍala; Pitṛs drink the nectar of the moon (1/15) part

    of it remaining; there is no moon, middle sun — half night

    half day.1 Yajñas with 21 samjñas.2 Only when two of its

    kalas remain, the moon enters the orbit of the sun and stays

    in the ray called Amā and hence the period is Amāvāsyā,3

    fit for śrāddha.4 [Footnote] 1) Br. II. 10. 62. 65; 21. 153; 23. 70; 28. 6; 17. 19; M. 17. 2;

    126. 66. 72; 141. 42-49; Vā. 52. 64; 53. 92; 56. 1, 6, 42 and 49 [Footnote] 2) Br. III. 11. 14. Vā. 74. 13. [Footnote] 3) Vi. I. 20. 38; II. 8. 80; 12. 8;

    III. 14. 7-10. [Footnote] 4) Vi. III. 14. 7-10.

    Indian Epigraphical Glossary

    ☞ p. 17.
    amāvāsyā, cf. ṣaṣṭhī amāvāsyā, caturthī-amāvāsyā, nava rātri-

    amāvāsyā, mahānavamī-amāvāsyā, etc.