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ḍhākre
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var. ḍhākryā; n. 1) a porter; one who carries goods on his back in a ḍhākara, a large hand-woven conical basket of bamboo widely popular in hill regions; 2) a former state employee (cf. M.R. Pant 2002: 132 ), "off-role, out of government employment" (Whelpton 1991: 282); 3) an unemployed person; 4) another word for raitī, i.e. tenants or settlers, who fall under the jurisdiction of and pay taxes to the Limbu subbā (cf. Parajuli et al. 2075 s.v. ḍhākre).
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