ratikara , m. , ( 1 ) lamp (? possibly a corruption for some other word of that mg. ; this mg. is proved by Burnouf, Introd. 223 infra , where in a transl. of a verse recension of Kv it is a lamp which gives the merchant Siṃhala(rāja) the information which in the prose Kv he receives from a ratikara; no plausible em. occurs to me): Kv 54.7 ; 55.7, 9, 12 (warns the merchant that he is in danger of being devoured by an ogress); ( 2 ) m. , n. of a samādhi: Mvy 545 ; ŚsP 1418.11 . Cf. ratiṃkara .