paccanta

adjective noun adj. adjoining, bordering on, neighbouring, adjacent Dhp.315; Ja.i.11 (v.47, ˚desa), Ja.i.377 (˚vāsika); Pv-a.201 (˚nagara); Dhp-a.iii.488 (id.); Sdhp.11 (˚visaya). (m.) the border, outskirts, neighbourhood Vin.i.73; Ja.i.126 (vihāra˚); Ja.ii.37; Mil.314 (˚e kupite in a border disturbance); Dhp-a.i.101 (id.); Pv-a.20 (id.). ˚ṃ vūpasāmeti to appease the border Pv-a.20
■ P. in sense of “heathen” at Vism.121.

paṭi + anta, cp. Sk. pratyanta