SaNKa
śaṅkha (also written saṃkha, Mv ), ( 1 ) m. ( Pali saṅkha), n. of one of the four ‘great treasures’, (saṃkha) Mv iii.383.18 , and of the ‘king’ who presides over it, Divy 61.4 (see s.v. elapatra ); as a nāga, known in Skt. ; Divy 61.4 mentions this Ś. in juxtaposition with (2) but the relation between them is not made clear; in Pali the two have no connexion, (1) being only a ‘treasure’ DN comm. i.284.8 f. ; ( 2 ) (= Pali id. , DPPN Saṅkha 3), n. of a future emperor: Divy 60.14 ff. ; ( 3 ) n. of a rākṣasa, = Śaṅkhanābha : Divy 104.8 .