[na. ta. nipātaḥ] 1 In- opportune time.

2 [āsamyak annādi- saṃpannaḥ kālaḥ ākālaḥ na. ta. Tv.] Fam- ine (perhaps an irregular form for annākāla). Comp. bhṛtaḥ one who, to save himself from starvation in a famine, voluntarily becomes a slave of another.