अर्चनस् — {arca-nas} mfn. (fr. {arcā} below), 'one whose nose is like that of an idol' Kāś. and Pat. on Pāṇ. 5-4, 118. [The rule perhaps originally meant to explain the above N. {arcanânas}, taking it for {arcanānas}, 'whose nose shows submission or devotion.']