Yājñ. 2, 244.
— 1) Adj. der achte.
— 2) f. °mikā ein best. Gewicht , = śukti.
see CPD s.v.), one who is in the eighth (and lowest) stage
of (Hīnayāna) religious development, = srotaāpanna-
phala-pratipannaka (Dharmas 102; for the Pali see
Childers, cited s.v. śaikṣa): Mv i.120.9 (prose) aṣṭamake
dhutavedanāgṛddhā bhāvanān (so with all mss.; or read
°nām; Senart em. °nā) uttrasanti, said of backsliding
Bodhisattvas, being eager for the sensations which are (or
should be) destroyed (even) in a person in the lowest stage
of religious development, they shrink from self-cultivation
(bhāvanā); Senart fails to understand; Mv i.159.8 aṣṭama-
kādikā pudgalā yāvad arhatpudgalā (mss. puṃgalā both
times), from the srotāpanna to the arhat; aṣṭamaka-bhūmi,
here the third of the (seven) bhūmi of a śrāvaka, Mvy
1143; ŚsP 1473.12 et alibi, see bhūmi 4; aṣṭamaka-
dharma, the conditions (or religious principles) of a person
in this stage, ŚsP 1555.11; (2) m., n. of the king otherwise
called Aṣṭaka, q.v.: Mv iii.364.7; 365.18; 366.7; 373.23;
(3) n. of a nāga king: Māy 246.22; (4) n. of a maharṣi:
Māy 256.13.