ṣaṣṭhá mf(I/)n. sixth, the sixth (with bhāga or aṃśa m. ‘a sixth part’; with or scil. kāla m. ‘the sixth hour of the day, the sixth meal eaten at the end of a fast of three days’; ṣaṣṭhaṃ √ kṛ, ‘to eat such a meal’), [AV.] &c. &c.
ṣaṣṭhá m. (scil. akṣara) the sixth letter i.e. the vowel ī, [RPrāt.]
N. of a man = -candra, [Rājat.]
ṣaṣṭhá n. a sixth part, [Gaut.]