a. (trī f.) [nakṣatrāṇāmidaṃ aṇ] Starry, sidereal. traṃ A month computed by the moon's passage through the 27 lunar mansions, a month of 30 days of sixty Ghaṭīs each; nāḍīṣaṣṭhyā tu nākṣatramahorātraṃ prakī- rtitaṃ Sūrya S.

[na kṣarati; cf. Uṇ. 3. 105 also] 1 A star in general.

2 A constellation, an asterism in the moon's path, lunar mansion; nakṣatra- tārāgrahasaṃkulāpi R. 6. 22; (they are twenty-seven).

3 A pearl.

4 A necklace of 27 pearls. Comp. īśaḥ, īśvaraḥ, nāthaḥ, paḥ, patiḥ, rājaḥ the moon; R. 6. 66. kāṃtivistāraḥ the white Yāvanāla flower. cakraṃ 1. the sphere of the fixed stars.

2. the lunar asterisms...

a. (kī f.) [nakṣatrādāgataḥ ṭhañ] Sidereal. kaḥ A month of 27 days (each day being the period of the moon's passage through a lunar asterism). kī The state (daśā) which a man suffers agreeably to the asterism presiding over his nati- vity.

m. 1 The moon.

2 An epithet of Viṣṇu.

a. 1 Belonging to the stars in general.

2 Twenty-seven.

3 Not a Kṣatriya.

m. dual. N. of the Nakṣa- tra. punarvasū.