an inner room Vin.i.217; MN.i.253; Ja.i.391 (jāto varake T. to be read as jāt’ovarake i.e. the inner chamber where he was born, thus also at Vv-a.158); Vism.90, Vism.431; Vv-a.304 (= gabbha).

Deriv. uncertain. The Sk. apavaraka is some centuries later. The Sk. apavaraka forbidden or secret room, Halāyudha “lying-in chamber”