Tama
Tama,(nt.) & tamo [Sk.tamas,tam & tim,cp.tamisra= Lat.tenebræ; also timira dark & P.tibba,timira; Ohg.dinstar & finstar; Ags.thimm,E.dim] darkness (syn.andhakāra,opp.joti),lit.as well as fig.(mental darkness=ignorance or state of doubt); one of the dark states of life & rebirth; adj.living in one of the dark spheres of life (cp.kaṇhajāta) or in a state of suffering (duggati) Sn.248 (pecca tamaṁ vajanti ye patanti sattā nirayaṁ avaṁsirā),763 (nivutānaṁ t.hoti andhakāro apassataṁ),956 (sabbaṁ tamaṁ vinodetvā); Vbh.367 (three tamāni:in past,present & future).adj.:puggalo tamo tama-parāyaṇo D.III,233; A.II,85= Pug.51; J.II,17.-- tamā tamaṁ out of one “duggati” into another Sn.278 (vinipātaṁ samāpanno gabbhā gabbhaṁ t.t....dukkaṁ nigacchati),cp.M Vastu II.225,also tamāto tamaṁ ibid.I.27; II,215.-- tamat.--agge beyond the region of darkness (or rebirth in dark spheres),cp.bhavagge (& Sk.tamaḥ pāre) S.V,154,163.
--andhakāra (complete) darkness (of night) v.l.for samandha° at J.III,60 (Kern:tamondhakāra); --nivuta enveloped in d.Sn.348; --nuda (tama° & tamo°),dispelling darkness,freq.as Ep.of the Buddha or other sages Sn.1133,1136; It.32,108; Nd2 281; Vv 352 (=VvA.161); Miln.1,21,etc.; --parāyaṇa (adj.) having a state of darkness or “duggati” for his end or destiny S.I,93; A.II,85=Pug.51.(Page 297)