1. a mark Mil.102.
2. a target Mil.418; Dhp-a.i.52 (˚yoggā target practice, i.e. shooting).
3. a stake at gambling Ja.vi.271.
4. a high numeral, a lac or 100,000 (but cp. Pv-a.255, where lakkha of Pv.iv.3#38 is taken as a “period of time,” equal to 100 koṭis); Dāvs v.66.

fr. lakṣ (see lakkhaṇa), or (after Grassmann) lag “to fix,” i.e. to mark. Cp. Vedic lakṣa price at gambling (Zimmer, Altind. Leben 287)