dura , nt. ( etym. ?), seems to mean something like worldly existence : māyopamaṃ hi duram etat, svapnasamaṃ ca samskṛtam avīkṣyam RP 33.3 ( vs ; meter, Finot ʼs No. 18, p. xiv ). The only possible connection I have discovered is duraṃ-daraṃ, Deśīn. 5.46 , glossed duḥkhottīrṇam.