upakAraRa
? upakāraṇa ( cf. AMg. uvagāraṇa = Skt. upakāra? or for Skt. and Pali upakaraṇa?), in Mmk 48.10 evaṃ laḍḍukāgarbhoktārakaviśeṣān (? seems corrupt) pūpopakāraṇān sarvadevabhūtagaṇān sarvasattvāṃś ca mantropetān vidhinā niryātayet. We seem to need dat. instead of acc. forms for °gaṇān and °sattvāmś (as in the following parallel sentence); with that change, pūpopakāraṇān might mean benefactions consisting of cakes , or instruments ( cf. upakaraṇa) of (making) cakes ; or, with a mg. characteristic of upakaraṇa in Pali rather than Skt. , commodities consisting of cakes ; or finally, if = BHS upakaraṇa in Bbh 246.24 (see s.v. ), food consisting of cakes .