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आलोकति (Alokati)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
ālokati (hardly = ālokayati or the rare Skt. ālokate, sees, perceives
not even in the ‘sens moral’ suggested by Senart
rather denom. to āloka, q.v.), furnishes light: Mv 〔i.165.7〕 (vs, addressed to Buddha) yadā ca ālokasi nāgagāmi, yadā ca āgata maraṇāya pāraṃ, when you provide illumination (for creatures lost in the darkness of ignorance, 〔1.3 ff.〕) and when you have arrived at the shore beyond death (? readings here uncertain), (then the earth is shaken etc.)