ṣaṣṭhâṃśa m. a sixth part, (esp.) the amount of tax or of grain &c. taken in kind by a king (cf. ṣaḍ-bhāga) Yājñ. Ragh. MārkP.

• -vṛtti m. a king who subsists on the 6th part of the produce of the soil (taken as a tax) Śak. 187, ed. MW.