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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 84, col. 1.
    asāraka , adj. (= Pali id., Skt. asāra), unsubstantial,

    empty, worthless (see synonyms below): LV 242.15 and

    Suv 57.14, of the body (kāya); SP 282.1, read with WT

    asārakā for KN na sārakā, of conditions of existence

    (dharmāḥ); Mv ii.145.19 (sarvadharmaṃ) riktakaṃ tuc-

    chakaṃ asārakaṃ, empty, vain, unsubstantial; AsP 346.

    (9--)10 (puṇyābhisaṃskāro bodhisattvasya…śūnyaka…

    riktaka)…tucchaka…asāraka ity evākhyāyate; śās-

    trāṇi…°kāni (so, with n) Mv i.79.5 (vs), worthless (false)

    sciences (of the world). In some or all of these pejorative

    force may reside in the suffix -ka.