śaśâṅka m. 'hare-marked', the moon MBh. Kāv. &c

• camphor L.

• N. of a king Hcar. Sch.

• -kānta mfn. lovely as the moon Jain.

• -kiraṇa-prakhya mfn. resembling a ray of the moon MBh.

• -kula n. the lunar race Kathās.

• ja or -tanaya m. 'the moon's son', the planet Mercury VarBṛS.

• -dhara m. N. of a grammarian Cat.

• -pura n. N. of a town (also -pūrvam puram) Kathās.

• -bimba n. n. the disk of the moon Jain.

• -bhās mfn. shining like the moon MW.

• -mukuṭa m. 'having the moon as diadem', N. of Śiva Kathās.

• -mūrti m. 'having a hare-marked form', N. of the moon MW.

• -lekhā f. 'moon-streak', the lunar crescent Śak.

• -vatī f. N. of a princess (after whom the 12th Lambaka of the Kathā-sarit-sāgara is called) Kathās.

• -vadanā f. a moon-faced woman Kāvyâd.

• -śatru m. 'moon's foe', N. of Rāhu VarYogay.

• -śṛṅga n. a horn or point of the moon's crescent (?) MW. [Page 1060, Column 2]

• -śekhara m. 'moon-crested', N. of Śiva BhP.

• -suta m. (= śaśâṅka-ja) VarBṛ.

• ○kârdha m. the half-mṭmoon

• ○kârdha-mukha mfn. having a head shaped like a half-mṭmoon (said of an arrow) Ragh.

• ○kârdhaśekhara m. N. of Śiva Rājat.

• ○kôpala m. a kind of precious stone (= candra-kānta) Sāh.