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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 67, col. 1.
    ardha-rātri (f. or) nt. (= Pali aḍḍha-ratti, f., rarely;

    usually °ratta, m. = Skt. ardha-rātra; cf. Skt. rātri),

    midnight: LV 210.2 (prose) °triṃ ca samayaṃ saṃprāp-

    taṃ. dṛṣṭvā ca…(best punctuated so with Lefm.), and

    the time (of) midnight was arrived. And seeing (all this)…

    (Foucaux takes °triṃ and samayaṃ as objects of dṛṣṭvā;

    the two ca's are against it); LV 217.9 (prose) °tri-samayaṃ

    (acc.).