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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 43, col. 1.
    ? apakṣya , adj. (cf. Skt. pakṣya, adherent of a party,

    as deva-p°), having no adherents: doubtful reading, LV

    301.4 (vs), Lefm. apakṣyapakṣyo, but many mss. apakṣa-

    pakṣo; we must read certainly pakṣo, and before it as

    a separate word apakṣya or apakṣa (n. sg. m.), your (Māra's)

    party is without adherents. The form apakṣa occurs in Skt.

    (Mbh. Crit. ed. 1.134.24) and in LV 273.3 saṃsāra-

    pakṣāpakṣa-karaṇa-gatiḥ, with the gait of one who makes

    partisanless the party of the saṃsāra; LV 302.13 (Māraḥ)

    svapakṣaṃ cāpakṣam apaśyat, saw his party without

    adherents (i.e. annihilated); also in Pali as apakkha (which

    however could of course = apakṣya); whereas apakṣya

    has not been noted elsewhere.