rajaka m. a washerman (so called from his cleaning or whitening clothes

• regarded as a degraded caste

• accord. to L. either 'the son of a Pāra-dhenuka and a Brāhṃanī' or 'the son of a Nishṭhya and an Ugrī) MBh. Kāv. &c

• a parrot or a garment (śuka or aṃśuka) L.

• N. of a king VP. (prob. wṛ. for rājaka)

• (ikā), f. a washerwoman Pāṇ. 3-1, 145 Pat.

• (akī), f. id. or the wife of a washerman ib.

• N. of a woman on the third day of her impurity Bhpr.