tantrI
Tantrī , n. of a daughter of Māra acc. to Mv iii.281.15 ; 283.15 ; 284.3 ; 286.6 . The Mv is clearly secondary here; thru out most of the passage it mentions only two daughters of Māra, Tantrī and Arati, but in 286.6 three, the third being Rati. Originally ( LV 378.4 ff. ; Pali , see Childers s.v. Ragā) there were three, Tṛṣṇā, Arati, and Rati (or, in Pali , Ragā, SN i.124.15 ff. ). It is clear that Mv replaces Tṛṣṇā by Tantrī. Could it be a corruption of MIndic *Taṇhī = BHS tṛṣṇī , q.v. ? Or is the corruption based on some form of the numeral for three (which is lost in Mv except in the final verse), cf. tās tisro … LV 378.4 ?