Tantrī (6841)

Tantrī
Entry 6841, Page 249, Col. 2

(tantrI, tantrI)
Tantrī¦, n. of a daughter of Māra acc. to Mv iii.281.15; 283.15; 284.3; 286.6. The Mv is clearly secondary here; thruout most of the passage it mentions only two daughters of Māra, Tantrī and Arati, but in 286.6 three, the third being Rati. Originally (LV 378.4 ff.; Pali, see Childers s.v. Ragā) there were three, Tṛṣṇā, Arati, and Rati (or, in Pali, Ragā, SN i.124.15 ff.). It is clear that Mv replaces Tṛṣṇā by Tantrī. Could it be a corruption of MIndic *Taṇhī = BHS tṛṣṇī, q.v. ? Or is the corruption based on some form of the numeral for three (which is lost in Mv except in the final verse), cf. tās tisro…LV 378.4 ?