Candraprabha
From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia
By Jit Majumdar
- moonlight
- as glorious as the moon
- the 7th Jain Tīrthańkara whose emblem was the crescent moon (J.S. Kośa); an Arhat of the present Avasarpinī; a Bodhisattva (B. Jātaka); the medicinal plant Babchi (Psoralea corylifolia); (Fem: candraprabhā): the mother of Somaprabhā (Cs. Car.); a Gandharvī; the daughter of the Asura Maya (K.S.S.).