आर्धिक _ārdhika

आर्धिक a. (

-की f.) [अर्धमर्हति ठक्] Sharing half, relating to a half.

-कः One who ploughs the land for half the crop; one born of a Vaiśya woman, and brought up by a Brāhmaṇa; Ms.4.253; see the quotation under अर्धिक.