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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 21, col. 1.
    an-arthika , adj. (= Pali anatthika; not in Skt.; see

    arthika and next), not desirous (of: instr., rarely loc. or

    abl.), (a) with instr.: anarthikāś ca te śrāmaṇyena bhavi-

    ṣyanti LV 88.18, and they will not be anxious for monkhood

    (duty of monks), so read with Foucaux's ms. A, see his

    Notes p. 113 (Lefm. śrāmaṇyo na); saṃskṛtenādhyāśayenā-

    narthikaḥ sarvopādānaparigrahair anarthiko LV 180.12,

    with his resolve not desirous of the conditioned (see saṃskṛta

    and adhyāśaya, which are not to be construed together),

    and not desirous of all grasping and possessions; RP 15.1

    (lābhena); 34.10 (dharmaśravaṇena); 43.12 (kāmabhogaiḥ);

    KP 125.2, 4, 6; sv-anarthiko Śikṣ 113.9 (guṇaiḥ), very un-

    desirous of virtues (wrongly Bendall and Rouse); (b) with

    loc.: anarthiko sarvakāmabhogeṣu Mv iii.104.17; (c) with

    abl.: saṃsārād anarthikaḥ Divy 2.1, averse from the

    saṃsāra.