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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 39, col. 1.
    antarā-parinirvāyin , adj. (= Pali °nibbāyī), acc.

    to Tib. on Mvy 1015 (bar ma dor, for antarā) attaining

    nirvāṇa in the intermediate state (between death and re-

    birth; i.e. before the soul can be reborn in a new existence);

    Dharmas 103; Mv i.33.6. Acc. to CPD, rather entering

    nirvāṇa before the term, i.e. before having passed the first

    half of life (in the middle of life). This seems to be the

    orthodox Pali interpretation, but the Tib. interpretation

    was also known (cf. CPD s.v. antarābhava); it is refuted

    in Kathāvatthu viii.2 (Transl. pp. 212--3).