(~ā & ~ī) n. & ~ī feminine

1. (mfn.) the eighth.
2. (f., scil. ratti) the eighth day or night; esp. the eight day or night of the lunar half-month.

, mfn. & masculine

1. (n.) the 14th day (of a lunar fortnight)
2. (mfn.) on the 14th day (of a lunar fortnight); (m.) the uposatha observance on the fourteenth day (of a lunar fortnight)

(from cātuddasī) on the 14th day of a lunar fortnight.

the constellation or lunar mansion of the Pleiades.

star; a heavenly body; a pattern or a group of stars or constellation through which the moon passes, one of 27 (or 28) lunar mansions; a disposition of the stars or constellations; a favorable disposi …

constellation; a lunar mansion.

1. (for non-buddhists) a fastday, a day of purification; (for Buddhists) a day on which lay-followers undertake to observe eight abstinence and on which they listen to teaching on the dhamma (usuall …