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    adharmāstikāya

    See also adharmmāstikāya.

    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 53, col. 1.
    adharmāstikāya Tatpur. m. (-yaḥ) The category or predicament

    of adharma, according to the Jainas (see adharma, 2.). E. adharma

    and astikāya.

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

    ☞ p. 20, col. 1.
    adharmāstikāya m. the category (astikāya) of adharma, (one of the five categories of the Jainas ontology); (accord. to some Jaina authorities, ‘the category which is the determinant cause of rest’))

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 140.
    adharmāstikāya (adharma + astikāya) m. die Kategorie der Ungesetzlichkeit (bei den Jaina's) COLEBR. Misc. Ess. I, 385.