candrá mf(A)n. (fr. ścandrá, q.v.) glittering, shining (as gold), having the brilliancy or hue of light (said of gods, of water [[RV. x, 121, 9]; [TS. vi]] and of Soma), [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS. vi]; [TBr. i]
candrá m. the moon (also personified as a deity, [Mn.] &c.), [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c. (ifc. f(A). , [MBh. ix]; [R.] &c.)
candrá m. ifc. ‘the moon of’ i.e. the most excellent among (e.g. pārthiva- [g. vyāghrādi, [Kāś.]] or narendra- [[Ratnāv. i, 4]], ‘a most excellent king’)
the number ‘one’, [Sūryas.]
a lovely or agreeable phenomenon of any kind, [L.]
a spot similar to the moon, [BhP. iv, 15, 17]
the eye in a peacock's tail, [L.]
the mark of the Visarga, [Tantr.]
a kind of reddish pearl, [L.]
camphor, [AgP. xxxv, 15]
water, [L.]
the Kāmpilla plant, [L.]
a metre of 4 × 19 syllables
N. of a Daitya (= -varman, king of the Kāmbojas), [MBh. i, 2667]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP. x, 61, 13]
of a son of Viśva-gandhi and father of Yuvanāśva, [ix, 6, 20]
of a grammarian (= -gomin), [Rājat. i, 176]
of a king, [Pañcat. v, 9, 2] and [10, 0/1]
of one of the ancestors of the Gauḍa Brāhmans
of several other men, [Rājat. vi f.]
one of the 18 minor Dvīpas, [L.]
= -parvata, [R. vi, 26, 6]
candrá n. ([Naigh. i, 2]; also m., [L.]) gold, [RV. ii, 2, 4]; [AV. xii, 2, 53]; [VS. iv], [xix]; [ŚBr.]; [TāṇḍyaBr. vi, 6]; [KātyŚr.]
candrá n. a kind of sour rice-gruel, [L.]
N. of a Sāman, [KātyŚr. xxvi]; [Lāṭy.]