anDakArApitatva
andhakārāpita-tva , nt. ( abstr. from caus. pple. to denom. verb from andhakāra, darkness ), state of being darkened ; so (or, possibly, andhakārāyita-tva, from non- caus. denom. pple. ) I would read at Mv i.41.5 ; 229.20 ; 240.9 ; ii.162.9 ; iii.334.7 ; 341.12 . The mss. are corrupt in the entire passage (see lokāntarikā ) and particularly at this point; Senart reads °kārārpitā, but there is no support for the -r- in the mss. The Mv seems to have read andhakārā andhakārāpitatvā (? °yitatvā), tamisrā tamisrāyitatvā ( q.v. ), darknesses, darkenednesses, glooms, begloomednesses . Only Mv has the second member of each pair (the derivatives of denom. pples. ); the other parallel passages point to something like andhakārā andhakāratamisrāḥ , q.v.