Akkhakkhāyika untranslated

Akkhakkhāyika. A famine in the mountain-region of Koṭṭa in Ceylon, during the reign of Duṭṭhagāmiṇi. The king sold his earrings and procured a meal for five khīṇāsava Theras (Mhv.xxxii.29-30). The famine was so-called because nuts called akkha (Terminalia Bellerica) were eaten, which at other times were used as dice. In the Aṭṭhakathā, quoted by the Mahā Vaṁsaṭīkā (p.593), the famine is called Pāsāṇachātaka.