The Sanskrit term Andhakāraprāyaścitta can be transliterated into English as Andhakaraprayascitta or Andhakaraprayashcitta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Andhakaraprayashchitta.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Andhakāraprāyaścitta (अन्धकारप्रायश्चित्त):—[tatpurusha compound] n.

(-ttam) A penance mentioned in the Varāha-Purāṇa, to atone for the offence of approaching, in the dark, the image of Viṣṇu in his incarnation as a boar, without a lamp and without the Śāstra; such an offence degrading the offender and exposing him to becoming blind: the penance consists in veiling the eyes during fifteen days, taking only one meal on the following twentieth day and one meal on each twelfth day of the half of a month, and when the penitent is half dead in consequence of such diet, sitting in the water and ultimately eating a dish of barley and rice cooked in cow’s urine. He is promised to be rid then of his crime. Another reading of this word is andhakāraspṛṣṭaprāyaścitta. E. andhakāra and prāyaścitta.

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