As a deity name
Name 510 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 267 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 107 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
चन्द्रिका · ćandrikā · s.f.
Moonlight, moonbeam, moonshine — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 444
चंद्रिका · feminine
moonbeam, moonshine, moonlight
चन्द्रिका · feminine
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi चन्द्रिका — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्रिका (candrikā). Doublet of चाँदी (cā̃dī), the inherited form.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
candrikā f. moonlight, Megh.; Ragh.; Bhartṛ. &c.
ifc. splendour, Vcar. v, 37
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
moonlight, &c.
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Dictionary citations
candrikā f. moonlight, Megh.; Ragh.; Bhartṛ. &c.
ifc. splendour, Vcar. v, 37
ifc. illumination, elucidation (of a work or subject, e. g. alaṃkāra-, kātantra-, &c.)
N. of a Comm. on Kāvyād.
‘moonshine’, baldness, Gal.
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