n. (fr. an-antara, [Pāṇ. v, 1, 124]), immediate sequence or succession, [KātyŚr.]; [Āp.]; [Mn.] &c.
proximity, absence of interval, [MBh.] &c.
an unpardonable sin (said by Buddhists to be five, viz. ‘matricide’, ‘parricide’, ‘killing an Arhat’, ‘shedding the blood of a Buddha’, ‘causing divisions among the brotherhood’), [Dharmas. 60]