parimARavant
parimāṇa-vant , adj. ( corresp. to Pali parimāṇa, as adj. , Vin. ii.62.7 etc. ), f. °vatī (āpatti), (sin) of (definite) extent (?): MSV iii.69.8, 12 , etc. ; opp. a-parimāṇavatī 70.11 ; 72.7 ff. (= Pali aparimāṇa). The real mg. is not clear, nor is it clear which category is more serious. Pali is equally uncertain, see SBE 17.421, n. 1 . It does not mean ‘if the period is known’ ( N. Dutt, Introd. xiv ), for the period (rātriparyanta) may be known or unknown in the case of an aparimāṇavatī, 72.7 ff.