prakAra
prakāra? in SP 146.5 ( vs ) puṣpaiḥ (so all mss. , KN em. puṣpa-, kept by WT without note) prakāraiḥ samalaṃkṛtaṃ ca; acc. to Tib. adorned with many flowers ( me tog maṅ pos ). On the face of the reading of the mss. and the Tib. rendering, prakāra should be an adj. , many ; it is otherwise known only as a noun, kind, sort . KN ʼs em. hardly helps; with kinds of flowers could not, so far as I know, serve as a substitute for with many kinds … ; for this we should expect bahu-, nānā-, or the like, modifying prakāra. I have thought of reading pravāraiḥ, taking it as = pravaraiḥ, excellent , with ā for a m.c. ; but Tib. does not support this.