aparapakṣa

Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

☞ p. 168, col. 1.

aparapakṣa Karmadh. m. (-kṣaḥ) The latter or dark half of a

month, the fifteen days during which the moon is in the

wane; the same as kṛṣṇapakṣa; e. g. aṣṭakāścatasraḥ . hemanta-

śiśirayoścaturṇāmaparapakṣāṇāmaṣṭamīṣvaṣṭakā ityāśvalāyanoktā.

Comp. pūrvapakṣa and śuklapakṣa. E. apara and pakṣa.

Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

☞ p. 28.

aparapakṣá m. the latter or dark half of a month.

Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

☞ p. 19, col. 3.

aparapakṣa apara-pakṣá, m. second half of the
lunar month; -rātrá, m. i, f. second half of
the night; -vaktra, n. a. metre.

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

☞ p. 50, col. 3.

apara—pakṣá m. the latter half of the month, ŚBr.

☞ p. 50, col. 3.

the other or opposing side, the defendant.

Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

☞ vol. 1, p. 287.

aparapakṣá (apara + pakṣa) m. die zweite Hälfte des Monats (Gegens. pūrvapakṣa) ŚAT. BR. 6, 7, 4, 7. 8, 4, 2, 11. 11, 1, 5, 3. 14, 6, 1, 7. (= BṚH. ĀR. UP. 3, 1, 5.) NIR. 5, 11. 11, 6.

Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

☞ vol. 1, p. 71, col. 3.

aparapakṣá m. die zweite Hälfte eines Mondmonats. Davon Adj. *aparapakṣīya.

Cappeller Sanskrit Wörterbuch

☞ p. 19, col. 2.

aparapakṣá m. die zweite Hälfte eines Mondmonats.

Vācaspatyam

☞ p. 231, col. 1.

aparapakṣa pu0 aparaḥ śeṣaḥ pakṣaḥ . kṛṣṇapakṣe sa hi candrasya
vṛddhihrāsapakṣayormadhye śeṣaḥ, caitraśuklapratipadyeva varṣārambha-
ṇāt śuklasya pūrvvatvam sutarāṃ kṛṣṇasyāparatvam . “pūrvvapakṣo
devānāmaparapakṣaḥ pitṝṇāmiti” śrutiḥ . “yathā caivā-
'parapakṣaḥ pūrvvapakṣādviśiṣyate” iti manuḥ “atha śrāddha-
mamāvāsyāyāṃ pitṝṇāṃ dadyāt pañcamīprabhṛti vā'para-
pakṣasyeti” smṛtiḥ “aśvayukkṛṣṇapakṣasya pretapakṣatvena apara-
pakṣatvavyavahāraḥ . “amāvāsyāmṛtoyaścāparapakṣamṛtastathā .
tasya pārvaṇamuddiṣṭaṃ munibhiḥ pañcapātrakamiti” smṛtiḥ
kacit pretapakṣetyeva pāṭhaḥ . “tulādiṣaḍaśītyahnāṃ
ṣaḍaśītimukhaṃ kramāt . taccatuṣṭayameva syāddvisvabhāveṣu
rāśiṣu .. ṣaḍviśe dhanuṣo bhāge dvāviṃśe'nimiṣasya ca .
mithunāṣṭādaśe bhāge kanyāyāstu caturdaśe .. tataḥ śeṣāṇi
kanyāyā yānyahāni tu ṣoḍaśa . kratubhistāni tulyāni
pitṝṇāṃ dattamakṣayam” iti sūryyasiddhāntokteḥ ṣaḍaśīti-
mukhāvaśiṣṭānāṃ ṣoḍaśānāṃ dinānāṃ śrāddhapraśastakālatvāda-
parapakṣatvam atha vā nāsti paro yasmāt tādṛśaḥ pakṣaḥ .
tāthācākṣayapuṇyadatvena atyutkṛṣṭatvāttathātvam . pañcādaśā-
hasyaiva pakṣatve'pi ṣoḍaśānāṃ dinānāṃ kiñcidadhikapakṣatvāt
pakṣatvam teṣāṃ sauratve'pi cāndre pakṣe vyavahārasya gauṇateti
bhedaḥ . vikalpyamānayoḥ pakṣayormadhye śeṣapakṣe ca .

Indian Epigraphical Glossary

☞ p. 25.

apara-pakṣa (IA 16), used to indicate ‘the dark

fortnight’.