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Definition[1]

sikatā : [f.] sand.

Source
A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]
Definition[2]

síkatā f. (said to be fr. the above, but prob fr. √sic, p. 1214) sand, gravel (mostly pl., sg. also 'a grain of sand') VS. &c. &c. [Page 1214, Column 1]
• sandy soil Pāṇ. 5-2, 105
• gravel or stone (as a disease) Suśr
• pl. N. of a race of Ṛishis MBh. (part of RV. ix, 86 is attributed to sikatā nivāvarī)

Source
Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William
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