e/ka ¦ mfn. (√ i, Uṇ. iii, 43, probably fr. a base e; cf. Zd. ae-va; Gk. οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Goth. ai-n-s; also Lat. aequu-s; g. sarvAdi, Pāṇ. i, 1, 27; see Gr. 200), one (eko’pi, or ekaS-cana, with na preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words ekayA na or ekAn na are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one, e.g. ekAn na triMSat, twenty-nine), RV. &c.
