apārthaapārtha (apa-ar°), as, ā, am, or apārthaka, as, ikā, am, without any object, useless, unprofitable; unmeaning; (am), n. incoherent argu- ment. —Apārtha-karaṇa, am, n. a false plea in a lawsuit.
apārtha [apa-artha], apārthakaa.1 Useless, unprofitable, worthless; sarvametadapārthaṃ te kṣipraṃ tau saṃprasādaya Mb. 2 Meaningless, unmeaning, senseless; apārthaṃ bahu bhāṣate Suśr. —rthaṃ Senseless or incoherent talk or argument (regarded as one of the faults of composition in rhetoric); yogyatāsattyākāṃkṣāśūnyaṃ vākyaṃ Gautama; paurvāparyāyogādapratibaṃdhārthamapārthakaṃ; cf. also Kāv. 3. 128; samudāyārthaśūnyaṃ yattadapārthamitīṣyate . Comp.—karaṇaṃ advancing a false plea in a law-suit.
apārtha [apa-artha], apārthakaa.1 Useless, unprofitable, worthless; sarvametadapārthaṃ te kṣipraṃ tau saṃprasādaya Mb. -2 Meaningless, unmeaning, senseless; apārthaṃ bahu bhāṣate Suśr. -rtham Senseless or incoherent talk or argument (regarded as one of the faults of composition in rhetoric); yogyatā- sattyākāṅkṣāśūnyaṃ vākyam Gautama; paurvāparyāyogādapratibandhārtha- mapārthakam; cf. also Kāv.3.128; samudāyārthaśūnyaṃ yattadapārthamitī- ṣyate |-2 uselessness; teṣāṃ śramo hyapārthāya yadātmā nādṛtaḥ svayam Bhāg.3.13.13. ind. In vain, unprofitably; svayaṃ sadharmā api śocantyapārtham Bhāg.7.2.37. -Comp. -karaṇam advancing a false plea in a law-suit.