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kṣayān

3. kṣaya (the accent is on the last syllable in the sense ‘destruction’, accord. to Pāṇ. iii, 3, 56 and vi, 1, 63 .) m. ( Pāṇ. vi, 1, 201 ) loss, waste, wane, diminution, destruction, decay, wasting or wearing away (often ifc. ), Mn. ; MBh. &c.

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1. kṣaya

3. kṣaya (the accent is on the last syllable in the sense ‘destruction’, accord. to Pāṇ. iii, 3, 56 and vi, 1, 63 .) m. ( Pāṇ. vi, 1, 201 ) loss, waste, wane, diminution, destruction, decay, wasting or wearing away (often ifc. ), Mn. ; MBh. &c.

2. kṣaya

fall (as of prices, opposed to vṛddhi, e.g. kṣayovṛddhiścapaṇyānām, ‘the fall and rise in the price of commodities’), Yājñ. ii, 258

3. kṣaya

end, termination ( e.g. nidrākṣ, the end of sleep, R. vi, 105, 14 ; dinakṣaye, at the end of day, MBh. i, 699 ; R. iv, 3, 10 ; jīvitakṣaye, at the end of life, Daś. ; āyuṣaḥkṣ id. , Ragh. ; kṣayaṃgam, √ yā, √ i, or upai, to become less, be diminished, go to destruction, come to an end, perish, Nal.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.