Mallaka [cp. Sk. mallaka & mallika] 1. a bowl, a vessel (?) used in bathing Vin ii.106 (mallakena nahāyati; or is it a kind of scrubber? Bdhgh's expln of this passage (CV v. i.4) on p. 315 is not quite clear; mallakaŋ nāma makara -- dantike chinditvā mūllakamūla -- saṇṭhānena kata -- mallakaŋ vuccati; akata˚ danta achinditvā kataŋ). It may bear some ref. to malla on p. 105 (see malla) & to mallika -- makula (see below mallikā). -- 2. a cup, drinking vessel A i.250 (udaka˚). -- 3. a bowl J iii.21 (kaŋsa˚=taṭṭaka). -- 4. in kheḷa˚ a spittoon Vin i.48; ii.175. -- Note. W. Printz in "Bhāsa's Prākrit." p. 45, compares Śaurasenī maḷḷaa, Hindī maḷḷ(a) "cup," maliyā "a small vessel (of wood or cocoanut -- shell) for holding the oil used in unction," mālā "cocoanut -- shell," and adds: probably a Dravidian word.