kṣara (5356)

kṣara
Entry 5356, Page 199, Col. 1

(kzara, kzara)
kṣara¦ (m.? = Pali khara, said by Jāt. comm. to mean a saw, twice in Jāt. vss.; used for cutting ivory or an elephant's tusk), a sharp cutting tool, perhaps a saw: Divy 417.10 (vs) kṣareṇa jihvām atha kartayāmi (cf., in prec. line, chinnāmi(!) nāsām krakacena vāsyāḥ; [Page199-b+ 71] krakaca, saw, in its Pali form kakaca, is the Jāt. comm.'s def. of khara).

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