1. (mfn.)

   1. arrived; having approached.
   2. advanced, passed (of the night, in the second or third watch); excellent, admirable; beautiful, surpassing, splendid.

2. (n.) advancing, approaching; …

…is used in 4 applications: abhikkantasaddo khaya (+ pabbaniya Kp-a) sundar’-âbhirūpa-abbhanumodanesu dissati. These are:

1. (lit.) gone…

of excellent vision

of excellent vision

more or most excellent; more beautiful

of wonderful beauty

(as exclamation of admiration, generally repeated:) excellent! wonderful!

…evaṃ paṭikkamitabbaṃ thus to approach & thus to withdraw)
pp abhikkanta (q.v.).

Vedic abhikramati, abhi…

…Vv-a.53; Pv-a.61 (abhikkanta). Occurs in the idiomatic phrase denoting the characteristics of true beauty *abhirūpa dassanīya…

…often combined with abhikkantatara, e.g. DN.i.62, DN.i.74, DN.i.216; SN.i.80; AN.i.119 AN.i.171; AN.v.37, AN.v.140, AN.v.203 sq.

pp. of pa…

…(opp. abhi˚) DN.i.70 (abhikkanta +); AN.ii.104 AN.ii.106 sq., AN.ii.210; Pv.iv.1#43 (cp. Pv-a.240); DN-a.i.183 (= nivattana); Vv-a.6…

night DN.i.47 (dosinā). gen. sg. ratyā (for *rattiyā) Thag.517; Snp.710 (vivasane = ratti-samatikkame Snp-a.496); Ja.vi.491. abl. sg. rattiyā in phrases abhikkantāya r. at the waning of night D …

…vaṇṇavant) DN.ii.220 (abhikkanta˚); MN.i.142 (id.) DN.iii.68 (āyu +); Pv.ii.9#10 (= rūpa-sampatti Pv-a.117) Sometimes combined with…