क्षयः _kṣayḥ

क्षयः [क्षि-अच्]

1 A house, residence, abode; यातनाश्च यमक्षये Ms.6.61; निर्जगाम पुनस्तस्मात्क्षयान्नारायणस्य ह Mb.

-2 Loss, decline, waste, wane, decay, diminution; आयुषः क्षयः R.3.69; धनक्षये वर्धति जाठराग्निः Pt.2.186; so चन्द्रक्षयः, क्षयपक्षः &c.

-3 Destruction, end, termination; निशाक्षये याति ह्रियैव पाण्डुताम् Ṛs.1.9; Amaru.6.

-4 Pecuniary loss; Ms.8.41.

-5 Fall (as of prices.)

-6 Removal.

-7 Universal destruction (प्रलय).

-8 Consumption.

-9 A disease in general.

-1 The negative sign or quantity, minus (in algebra).

-11 Family, race.

-12 The house of Yama.

-13 A part of the elephant's knee (गजजानुभागविशेषः); Mātaṅga L.5.15.

-14 Power (क्षी क्षयैश्वर्ययोरित्यैश्वर्यार्थस्य क्षिधातो रूपम् -Com. on Mb.12.33.2); उपपद्यति संयोगाद् गुणैः सह गुणक्षयात् ibid.

-यम् N. of the last year in the sixty years cycle.

-Comp. -उपशमः complete annihilation of the desire of being active (Jaina).

-कर (also क्षयंकर) a. causing decay or destruction, ruinous.

-कालः 1 time of universal destruction.

-2 the period of decline.

-कासः consumptive cough.

-तिथिः, f.

-क्षयाहः the lunar day not beginning with the sun-rise, hence omitted in the calendar.

-पक्षः the dark fortnight. क्षयपक्ष इवैन्दवीः कलाः सकला हन्ति स शक्तिसंपदः Ki.2.37.

-2 a fortnight of 13 days.

-मासः the month in which two संक्रान्तिs occur and which is omitted in the adjustment of the lunar-solar calender.

-युक्तिः f.,

-योगः an opportunity of destroying; Ki.2.9.

-रोगः consumption.

-वायुः the wind that is to blow at the destruction of the world.

-संपद् f. total loss, ruin.