-ā (f.)

1. assignment, apportioning Vin.iv.60 = Vin.iv.123 = Vin.iv.283. At Vin.iv.122 two ways of assigning a gift are distinguished: sammukhāvikappanā & parammukhā˚. All these passages refer to the cīvara.
2. alternative, indecision, indefiniteness (= vikappa), as t. t. g. applied to part.; ca and vā e.g. Snp-a.179 (“ca”); Kp-a.166 (“vā”).

fr. vikappeti