kantāra : [m.] wilderness; desert.

A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]

Kantāra (adj. n.) [perhaps from kad -- tarati, difficult to cross, Sk. (?) kāntāra] difficult to pass, scil. magga, a difficult road, waste land, wilderness, expld as nirudaka īriṇa VvA 334 (on Vv 843), combd with maru˚ PvA 99 and marukantāramagga PvA 112; opp. khemantabhūmi. Usually 5 kinds of wilds are enumerated: cora˚, vāla˚, nirudaka˚, amanussa˚, appabbhakkha˚ J i.99; SA 324; 4 kinds at Nd2 630: cora˚, vāla˚, dubhikkha˚, nirudaka˚. The term is used both lit. & fig. (of the wilds of ignorance, false doctrine, or of difficulties, hardship). As the seat of demons (Petas and Yakkhas) freq. in Pv (see above), also J i.395. As diṭṭhi˚ in pass. diṭṭhi -- gata, etc. M i.8, 486, Pug 22 (on diṭṭhi vipatti).
   -- addhāna a road in the wilderness, a dangerous path (fig.)Th 1, 95~D i.73=M i.276; -- paṭipanna a wanderer through the wilderness, i. e. a forester J iii.537. -- magga a difficult road (cp. kummagga) J ii.294 (lit.); in simile: S ii.118. -- mukha the entrance to a desert J i.99.

Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,

kantāra: a. 難渡

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