[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Indian Epigraphical Glossary](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966) › c6.4519 # Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.4519 Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.4519 - **Language:** English ### [c6.4519](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.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\*. - [Previous: c6.4518](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.4518) - [Next: c6.4520](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.4520) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.4519](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.4519) · Pramāṇa