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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 3, col. 2.
    akāya Bahuvr. m. f. n. (-yaḥ-yā-yam) Having no body. E.

    a priv. and kāya.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    p. 2, col. 1.
    akāya a-kāya, as, ā, am, incorporeal.

    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 4, col. 1.
    akāya a. [nāsti kāyo yasya]

    1 Without body, incorporeal.

    2 An epithet of Rāhu, who is represented as having no body, but only a head.

    3 Epithet of the Supreme Spirit (without body, parts &c.)

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    p. 2, col. 1.
    a-kāyá mfn. bodiless, incorporeal, VS.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    vol. 1, p. 4.
    akāya a.. [nāsti kāyo yasya] Without body, incorporeal. -yaḥ 1 An epithet of Rāhu, who is represented as having no body, but only a head. -2 Epithet of the Supreme Spirit (without body, parts &c.)

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 9.
    akāyá (3. a + kāya) adj. körperlos VS. 40, 8 (brahma).

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 2, col. 2.
    akāyá Adj. körperlos.

    Vācaspatyam

    p. 39, col. 2.
    akāya pu0 nāsti kāyo'sya . kāyaśūnye rāhau tasya cāmṛtā-
    haraṇakāle viṣṇunā cchinnamastakatve'pi amṛtaprāśanena amara-
    ṇamityanusandheyam . amṛtāsvādanaviśeṣācchinnamapi śiraḥ
    kilāsurasyedam . prāṇairaparityaktaṃ grahatāṃ yātaṃ vadantyeke
    iti bṛhatsa0 . dehaśūnye tri0 . paramātmani pu0 .
    niṣkalasyāśarīriṇa ityuktestasya tathātvam .