anta
, n (sg. & pl.) [sa. antra], bowels, entrails,intestines (denoting now the whole alimentary canal,
now the guts, or esp. the rectum); kesā . . . ~aṁ anta-
guṇaṁ, etc., Khp III (p. 2,1) = DN II 293,15 = III
104,26= MN I 57,18 = 185,19 = Vibh 82,12; 194,6
(Vibh-a 62,1; 241,13; Vism 358,1; Pj I 56,27) ≠
Mil 26,9; mudumūsī ~am pi khādi antaguṇam pi
khādi, SN II 270,28; (lohaguḷaṁ) ... ~am pi an-
taguṇam pi ādāya adhobhāgā nikkhameyya, AN IV
132,1; ~an ti purisassa dvattiṁsa-hatthā, itthiyā
aṭṭhavīsati-hatthā, ekavīsatiyā ṭhānesu obhaggā
3antahattha-mattaṁ ekavīsatiyā ṭhānesu vamkaṁ (Se
w.r. ekaṁ) ~aṁ, Ps (Ee) III 139,17; ~aṁ bahi
nikkhamati, Ps I 158,15; ~assa pūro, Pj II 247,25
(= 'antapūro'); pl. ~āni, Vin I 276,16; Ja I 66,15;
Dhp-a I 80,9; Ja I 367,32 (~āni khaṇḍetvā; = anta-
vaṭṭikāni, Ja-ṭ).
