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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 9, col. 2.
    atiriktaka , adj., completely (miserably?) empty; in

    this sense (ati plus rikta, empty) nowhere recorded, either

    with or without suffixal -ka (pejorative?). Otherwise Skt.

    atirikta, and Pali atiritta(ka), are pples. of ati plus ric-

    and mean left over, excessive, superfluous or the like:

    Kāśyapo ca Pūraṇo 'tiriktakena pātreṇa nirdhāvati Mv

    ii.207.2 (whereas the Bodhisattva received a bowl full of

    delicacies).