sakkhi : [ind.] face to face; before one's eyes. || sakkhī (adj.) an eyewitness; a witness.

Sakkhi1 [sa3+akkhin; cp. Sk. sākṣin] an eyewitness D ii.237 (nom. sg. sakkhī=with his own eyes, as an eyewitness); Sn 479, 921, 934 (sakkhi dhammaŋ adassi, where the corresp. Sk. form would be sākṣād); J i.74. -- kāya -- sakkhī a bodily witness, i. e. one who has bodily experienced the 8 vimokkhas A iv.451; Vism 93, 387, 659. -- sakkhiŋ karoti [Sk. sākṣī karoti] (1) to see with one's own eyes S ii.255; (2) to call upon as a witness (with gen. of person) J vi.280 (rājāno); DhA ii.69 (Moggallānassa sakkhiŋ katvā); PvA 217 (but at 241 as "friendship"). Note. The P. form is rather to be taken as an adv. ("as present") than adj.: sakkhiŋ & sakkhi, with reduced sakkhi˚ (cp. sakid & sakiŋ). See also sacchi˚.
   -- diṭṭha seen face to face M i.369; D i.238; J vi.233. -- puṭṭha asked as a witness Sn 84, 122; Pug 29. -- bhabbatā the state of becoming an eyewitness, of experiencing M i.494; DhsA 141. -- sāvaka a contemporaneous or personal disciple D ii.153.

Sakkhī (f.) or sakkhi2 (nt.) [cp. Sk. sākhya] friendship (with somebody=instr.) S i.123=A v.46 (janena karoti sakkhiŋ make friends with people); Pv iv.157; iv.165; J iii.493; iv.478. Cp. sakhya.