karkawaka
karkaṭaka ( m. or nt. ; cf. karkaṭa, actually °ṭakāṅghri, a moulding, a kind of joinery resembling the crabʼs leg , Acharya, Dict. Hindu Arch. 115 ), ( 1 ) a kind of moulding on a toraṇa (°ṇā): Mv iii.178.16 tasya nirdhāvantasya [Page170-a] toraṇāye karkaṭakasmiṃ makuṭaṃ lagnaṃ, and 20 (uttamāṅgato makuṭaṃ toraṇāgrāto) karkaṭakena utkṣiptaṃ; ( 2 ) in Divy 274.23 (and 281.2 ) °kena, defined Index as hook , but rather tongs , a mg. found in Skt. ; ( 3 ) °ṭikā, f. , heart of a flower : Mvy 6239 = Tib. sñiṅ po , which also renders karṇikā 6238 ; also in indranīla-kark° 6244 ; of a lotus, Gv 434.14 mahāratnarājapadma-karkaṭikāyām; ifc. Bhvr. 434.13 (paṅktivairocana)maṇirāja-karkaṭikaṃ; ( 4 ) °ṭaka (= Pali Kakkaṭa), n. of an upāsaka in Nādikā: MPS 9.12 .