Name of a plant: Calotropis Gigantea, swallow-wort MN.i.429 (-assa jiyā bowstrings made from that plant).

• -nāla a kind of dress material Vin.i.306 (vv.ll. agga & akkha˚);
• -vāṭa a kind of gate to a plantation, a movable fence made of the akka plant Vin.ii.154 (cp. akkha-vāṭa).

cp. Sk. arka