aparāntaka (1290)

aparāntaka
Entry 1290, Page 44, Col. 2

(aparAntaka, aparAntaka)
aparāntaka¦, f. °ikā, adj. of the western border, or of the country called Aparānta; used of cloth or garments, also as nt. noun, (cloth or garments) of Aparānta Mvy 9179; °ka- in cpd. Divy 316.26, of garments (adj. or noun?). In Divy 20.22-23 perhaps read aparāntikayā guptikayā in the style of Aparānta (? see guptikā); text asmāt parānti°. In Divy 1.3; 18.6; 19.16, 19, 23; 21.2, 12 the mss. read corruptly, and with much variation, a text discussed by the editors on p. 703; they read asmāt parāntaka- and interpret as a synonym of pratyantima, except in 19.19 where they read asmākam aparāntaka-, interpreting (with privative a-) as the opposite, not distant, near. The forms are troublesome; without much confidence I suggest that forms of aparāntaka may have been found in all, meaning something like of the western border (if not speci- fically of the country Aparānta). But Tib. (Bailey, JRAS 1950.172) on 19.19 points to Aśmāparāntaka, q.v.; and this seems to have been the regular Tib. form acc. to Schiefner, cited Divy p. 703.