The affix kan comes in the sense of taken off there from not long ago or shortly before' after the word tantra 'a loom'.,
The word तन्त्र must be in the fifth case in construction, by the very fact of its being so employed in the sutra. The word अचिर means 'short time, not long' अपहृत means \taken off\. Thus तन्त्रादचिरापहृतः = तन्त्रकः 'a cloth just taken off the loom' i. e. an unbleached cloth. As तन्त्रकः पटः, तन्त्रकः प्रावारः 'a new mantle' = प्रत्ययः or नवः ॥,