adjective other second, next; different Dhp.85, Dhp.104, Dhp.222; Ja.ii.3; Ja.iii.26 Ja.iv.4; Pv-a.13, Pv-a.14, Pv-a.42, Pv-a.83, Pv-a.117. In repetition cpd. itarītara one or the other, whatsoever, any Snp.42; Ja.v.425 Cnd.141; Mil.395; Kp-a.145, Kp-a.147; acc. itarītaraṃ instr.; itarītarena used as adv. of one kind or another in every way, anyhow [cp. BSk. itaretara Mvu.iii.348 and see Wackernagel Altind. Gram. II. Ś 121 c.] Ja.vi.448 (˚ṃ); Dhp.331 (˚ena); Vv.84#1 (text reads itritarena variant reading itaritarena, expld. by itaritaraṃ Vv-a.333).
Ved. itara = Lat. iterum a second time; compar. of pron. base *i, as in ayaṃ, etaṃ, iti etc.