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Entry कौमुदी

कौमुदीkaumudīMoonlight; शशिना सह याति कौमुदी Ku.4.33; शशिनमुपगतेयं कौमुदी मेघमुक्तम् R.6.85; (the word is thus popularly…
[कुमुदस्येयं प्रकाशकत्वात् अण् ङीष् Tv.]
1. Moonlight; शशिना सह याति कौमुदी Ku.4.33; शशिनमुपगतेयं कौमुदी मेघमुक्तम् R.6.85; (the word is thus popularly derived: कौ मोदन्ते जना यस्यां तेनासौ कौमुदी मता).
2. Anything serving as moonlight, id est, that is causing delight and balmy coolness; त्वं कौमुदी नयनयोरमृतं त्वमङ्गे Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)2; त्वमस्य लोकस्य च नेत्रकौमुदी Ku.5.71; या कौमुदी नयनयो- र्भवतः सुजन्मा Māl.1.34; Compare चन्द्रिका.
3. The full moon day in Kārtika; तस्मात्तु कपिला देया कौमुद्यां ज्येष्ठपुष्करे Mb.13.13.32.
4. The full moon day in Āśvina.
5. Festivity (in general).
6. Particularly, a festive day on which temples, houses etc. are illuminated.
7. (At the end of titles of works etc.) Elucidation, throwing light on the subject treated; Exempli gratia, for example तर्ककौमुदी, साख्यतत्त्वकौमुदी, सिद्धान्तकौमुदी etc.
Derived forms and compounds
- -चारः the day of full moon in the month Āśvina.
- -तरुः the stick of a lamp.
- -पतिः the moon.
- -मुखम् appearance of moonlight; सखीजनोद्वी- क्षणकौमुदीमुखम् R.3.1.
- -वृक्षः the stick or stand of a lamp.
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