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चान्िायण ćāndrāyaṇ, s.m. A religious observance or expiatory penance regulated by the moon's age (it consists in diminishing the daily consumption of food by one mouthful every day for the dark half of the month, beginning with 15 at the full moon until the quantity is reduced to 0 at the new moon, and then increasing in like manner during the fortnight of the moon's increase).