arca-nas mfn. (fr. arcā below), ‘one whose nose is like that of an idol’, Kāś. & Pat. on Pāṇ. v, 4, 118. [The rule perhaps originally meant to explain the above N. arcanā́nas, taking it for arcanā́nas, ‘whose nose shows submission or devotion’.]
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