kaparda | कपर्द | kaparda

kaparda | कपर्द | m. a small shell or cowrie (of which eighty = one paṇa, used as a coin or as a die in gambling, Cypraea Moneta) Comm. on VS. Comm. on Pāṇ.
braided and knotted hair (esp. that of Śiva, knotted so as to resemble the cowrie shell), L.
(cf. ca/tuś-kaparda | च/तुश्-कपर्द |.)

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