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Saṇhaka, at J iii.394 (of hair growing white "saṇhaka- sadisā") according to Kern, Toev. ii.69 (coarse) hempen cloth (=sāṇavāka), as indicated by v. l. sāṇalāka. Thus a der. fr. saṇa=sāṇa. Kern compares P. tuṇhīra= tūṇīra; Sk. śaṇa=śāṇaka. According to Andersen, Pāli Glossary "betelnut" (=saṇha).

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Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,
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