saw Thag.445; Ja.iv.30; Ja.v.52; Ja.vi.261; DN-a.i.212; in simile --ūpama ovāda MN.i.129. Another simile of the saw (a man sawing a tree) is found at Pts.i.171, quoted & referred to at Vism.280, Vism.281.

• -khaṇḍa fragment or bit of saw Ja.i.321.
• -danta tooth of a saw, DN-a.i.37 (kakaca-danta-pantiyaṃ kīḷamāna).

onomat. to sound root kr̥, cp. note on gala; Sk. krakaca