salākā (f.) [cp. vedic śalākā] 1. an arrow, a dart a iv.107 (t. has it as nt.). -- 2. a small stick, peg, thin bar s iv.168; dāvs iv.51. -- 3. blade of a grass m i.79; j i.439. -- 4. ribs of a parasol vin iv.338; sna 487; miln 226. -- 5. a pencil, small stick (used in painting the eyes with collyrium) vin i.204; j iii.419 (añjana˚). <-> 6. a kind of needle vin ii.116. -- 7. a kind of surgical instrument, a stick of caustic miln 112, 149. -- 8. a gong stick (of bronze, loha˚) j ii.342; vism 283. -- 9. membrum virile j ii.359. -- 10. a ticket consisting of slips of wood used in voting and distributing food, vote, lot vin ii.99, 176, 306; j i.123; pva 272 (kāḷakaṇṇi˚); salākaŋ gaṇhāti to take tickets (in order to vote or to be counted) vin i.117; ii.199; paṭhaman salākaŋ gaṇhanto taking the first vote, first rate a i.24; salākaŋ gāheti to issue tickets, to take a vote vin ii.205; salākaŋ dadāti to issue tickets j i.123; salākaŋ vāreti to throw lots j i.239 (kāḷakaṇṇi˚).   -- agga room for distributing food by tickets j i.123; mhvs 15, 205. -- odhāniya a case for the ointment -- stick vin i.204. -- gāha taking of votes, voting vin ii.85, 98 sq. (3 kinds). -- gāhāpaka ticket -- issuer, taker of voting tickets vin ii.84. -- bhatta food to be distributed by tickets vin i.58, 96; ii.175; j i.123; dha i.53 (eight kinds). -- vātapāna a window made with slips of wood vin ii.148. -- vutta "subsisting on blades of grass" (or "by means of food tickets"?) vin iii.6, 67; iv.23; a i.160; s iv.323. cp. bsk. śalākāvṛtti divy 131. -- hattha brush -- hand, a kind of play, where the hand is dipped in lac or dye and used as a brush (?) d i.65; da i.85.