Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.4519

c6.4519

*pauṣadha* (HA), Sanskrit *uposatha*; living like a Jain monk for 12 or 24 hours; the observance of fast on the eighth and fourteenth of the fortnight, the full-moon day and the day before the new moon and abstention from wicked acts, chastity, abandonent of bathing, etc., i.e. living temporarily like a monk. See *poṣadha*.