Pulaka
Pulaka,[cp.Sk.pulāka,Halāyudha 5,43; not Sk.pulaka,as Kern,Toev.s.v.for which see also Walde,Lat.Wtb.s.v.pilus] shrivelled grain Miln.232 (sukka-yava° of dried barley); DhA.II,154 (SS; T.reads mūlakaṁ,which is expld by Bdhgh as “nitthusaṁ katvā ussedetvā gahita-yava-taṇḍula vuccanti” ibid).Here belongs pulasa-patta of J.III,478.(vv.ll.pulā°,mūlā°,mulā°; expld by C.as “saṇhāṇi pulasa-gaccha-paṇṇāni,” thus taking pulasa as a kind of shrub,prob.because the word was not properly understood).(Page 470)