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a-kāsiya

, (?) m. pl. ~ā, Ja VI 212,7*, according
to the Ct. = certain royal functionaries (°-saṁkhātā
rājapurisā) who had to gather the taxes. (Etymology
doubtful; one might suggest ākāsiya = sa. ākarṣika, con-
troller of coins? cf. the reading ākāsiya-saṁkhātā of
the Ms. C^k at Ja VI 215,22').

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