stake, spike; javelin MN.i.337; SN.iv.168; Ja.vi.112; Dhp-a.i.69
■ ayo˚; an iron stake AN.iv.131.

• -patha a path full of stakes & sticks Vv.84#11; Ja.iii.485 Ja.iii.541; Mil.280; Vism.305.
• -sata a hundred sticks hundreds of sticks Ja.vi.112; Vism.153 (both passages same simile with the beating of an ox-hide).
• -samāhata set with iron spikes, Name of a purgatory MN.i.337; Ja.vi.453.

cp. Vedic śanku