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[apte] num. a. (pl.) Sixteen. --Comp. --aṃśuḥ the planet Venus. --aṃga a. having 16 parts or ingre- dients. (--gaḥ) a kind of perfume. --aṃgulaka a. having the breadth of 16 fingers. --aṃdhriḥ a crab. --arcis m. the planet Venus. --āvartaḥ a conch-shell. --upacāra m. pl. the sixteen ways of doing homage to a deity &c.: they are thus enumerat- ed:--āsanaṃ svāgataṃ pādyamarghyamācamanīyakam. madhuparkācama nānaṃ...

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num. a. (pl.) Sixteen. --Comp. --aṃśuḥ the planet Venus. --aṃga a. having 16 parts or ingre- dients. (--gaḥ) a kind of perfume. --aṃgulaka a. having the breadth of 16 fingers....

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