kAlaka · adjective (f. -ikā)
kālaka , ( 1 ) adj. (= Pali kāḷaka; Skt. very rarely for kāla, see BR s.v. ), black : Mvy 8397 śuddhaka-kālakānām ( Kyōtō text °nam; Mironov °nām), sc. eḍakalomnām (same passage in Pali suddha-kāḷakānaṃ, Vin. iii.225.28 ); varṇena te kālaka tatra bhonti SP 94.7 ( vs ; here ka could be pejorative, or m.c. ); kālako vata bhoḥ śramaṇo gautamaḥ LV 255.4 ; 256.7 (prose; could be pejorative ka); ( 2 ) black spot on a garment, and also moral defilement (= Pali kāḷaka, id. ), see s.vv. apagatakālaka and sarvakālaka ; ( 3 ) ( m. ?) blackhead, pimple on skin (= Skt. Lex. , perh. once lit. , id. ; Pali kāḷaka; = BHS 1 kāla 1, q.v. , rare): vyapagata-tila-kālaka-gātra, one of the anuvyañjana, Mironov ʼs Mvy for Kyōtō °kāla° 309 , and similarly LV 107.5 ; Mv ii.43.13 ; ( 4 ) ( cf. 1 Kāla 3 and Kālika ) n. of a nāga: Mvy 3327 (here definitely distinguished as a ‘commoner’ of the nāgas from Kāla, who is a ‘nāga king’); Māy 221.24 ; 247.3 ; however, in Māy 247.13 dvau Kālakau nāgarājānau. See next.
black; dark; black with dirt
(adj, adj) black; dark; black with dirt