denom. verb from andhakāra, darkness), state of being
darkened; so (or, possibly, andhakārāyita-tva, from non-
caus. denom. pple.) I would read at Mv i.41.5; 229.20;
240.9; ii.162.9; iii.334.7; 341.12. The mss. are corrupt in
the entire passage (see lokāntarikā) and particularly at
this point; Senart reads °kārārpitā, but there is no support
for the -r- in the mss. The Mv seems to have read an-
dhakārā andhakārāpitatvā (? °yitatvā), tamisrā tamisrā-
yitatvā (q.v.), darknesses, darkenednesses, glooms, begloomed-
nesses. Only Mv has the second member of each pair (the
derivatives of denom. pples.); the other parallel passages
point to something like andhakārā andhakāratamisrāḥ,
q.v.