Comp. also śroṇāparāntaka.
2. n. (-kam) A sacred song, the singing of which is,
according to Yājnavalkya, conducive to final liberation;
comp. also as similar songs ullopya, madraka, prakarī, auve-
ṇaka, sarovindu, uttara (these are called gītaka); āsārita,
vardhamānaka (these are called mahāgītaka); and those which
have arisen from the former, viz. ṛggāthā, pāṇikā, da-
kṣavihitā and brahmagītikā (these are called gītikā).
3. f. (-ntikā) The name of a metre regulated by quan-
tity, a variety of the Vaitalīya q. v.; it consists of a stanza of
four lines with sixteen mātrās in each line, the special con-
ditions of each verse being similar to those of the Vaitalīya,
q. v. E. aparānta, taddh. aff. kan.
-anta + ka. I. m. The name of a people.
II. n. A song conducive to final libera-
tion, Yājñ. 3, 113.
1) m. N. pr. eines Volkes Verz. d. B. H. 241, 24. śroṇāparāntakāḥ BURN. Intr. 252.
— 2) N. eines Gesanges (gītaka) YĀJÑ. 3, 113.
1) VARĀH. BṚH. S.5,70. 14,20. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 217,b,10. aparāntikāḥ striyaḥ ebend.
— 1) m. Pl. die Bewohner des äussersten Westens. f. apaāntikā.
— 2) f. °ntikā ein best. Metrum.
— 3) n. ein best. Gesang.
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.