with the head downwards; headlong, headfirst

…(adv.) with bowed head (cp. avaṃsiraṃ) Ja.vi.298 (= siraṃ adhokatvā heṭṭhāmukho C.).

• -sīsa (adj.) head first,…

…up high). Freq. in cpd avaṃsira (adj.) head downward (+ uddhaṃpāda feet up) a position characteristic of beings in…

purgatory, hell, a place of punishment & torture, where sin is atoned (i.e. kamma ripens = paccati, is literally boiled) by terrible ordeals (kāraṇāni) similar to & partly identical with those of Hade …

tamo 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 d …