[val-kalan kasya netvaṃ] 1 The bark of a tree.

2 A garment made of bark, bark-garment; iyamadhi- kamanojñā valkalenāpi tanvī Ś. 1. 20, 19. R. 12. 8; Ku. 5. 8; haimavalkalāḥ 6. 6 ‘wearing golden bark-dresses’; (cf. cīraparigrahāḥ in Ku. 6. 93). Comp. saṃvīta a. clad in bark.