candra—kalā f. a digit or 1/16 of the moon's disc (each digit is personified as a female divinity, [Tantr.]), the crescent on the day before or after the new moon, [Kathās. i, 39]
the mark of a finger-nail resembling the crescent before or after new moon
the fish Pimelodus Vacha, [L.]
a kind of drum, [L.]
(in music) a kind of measure
N. of a drama, [Sāh. iii, 96/97]