| parvan | पर्वन् | párvan n. a knot, joint (esp. of a cane or other plant [cf. parus], but also of the body), limb, member (lit. and fig.), [RV.] &c. &c. |
| a break, pause, division, section (esp. of a book), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c. |
| the step of a staircase, [Ragh.] |
| a member of a compound, [Prāt.]; [Nir.] |
| a period or fixed time, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [GṛŚrS.] |
| (esp.) the Cāturmāsya festival, [ŚrS.] |
| the days of the 4 changes of the moon (i.e. the full and change of the moon and the 8th and 14th of each half-month), [GṛŚrS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. |
| a sacrifice performed on the occasion of a change of the moon, [R.] |
| the day of the moon's passing the node at its opposition or conjunction, [Var.]; [Sūryas.]; [MBh.] &c. |
| the moment of the sun's entering a new sign, [W.] |
| any partic. period of the year (as the equinox, solstice &c.), [ib.] |
| a division of time, e.g. a half-month (24 in a year), [MBh.] |
| a day (360), [BhP.] |
| a festival, holiday, [W.] |
| opportunity, occasion, [ib.] |
| a moment, instant, [ib.] |
| parvanāḍī | पर्वनाडी | parva—nāḍī f. ‘moment of the Parvan’, moment of opposition or conjunction, [MW.] |
| parvanirṇaya | पर्वनिर्णय | parva—nirṇaya m. N. of wk. |