viparāmosa

(Viparāmāsa) highway robbery DN.i.5 (explained as twofold at DN-a.i.80, viz. hima˚ & gumba˚ or hidden by the snow & a thicket; the pop. etym given here is “janaṃ musanti,” i.e. they steal, or beguile people); DN.iii.176 (variant reading ˚māsa); AN.ii.209; AN.v.206; SN.v.473; Pp.58.

vi + parāmāsa, the form ˚mosa probably a distortion of ˚māsa