क्षय [kṣaya] See under क्षि.
क्षयः [kṣayḥ] [क्षि-अच्]
A house, residence, abode; यातनाश्च यमक्षये
[Ms.6.61;] निर्जगाम पुनस्तस्मात्क्षयान्नारायणस्य ह
[Mb.] Loss, decline, waste, wane, decay, diminution; आयुषः क्षयः
[R.3.69;] धनक्षये वर्धति जाठराग्निः
[Pt.2.186;] so चन्द्रक्षयः, क्षयपक्षः &c.
Destruction, end, termination; निशाक्षये याति ह्रियैव पाण्डुताम्
[Ṛs.1.9;] [Amaru.6.] Pecuniary loss;
[Ms.8.41.] Fall (as of prices.)
Removal.
Universal destruction (प्रलय).
Consumption.
A disease in general.
The negative sign or quantity, minus (in algebra).
Family, race.
The house of Yama.
A part of the elephant's knee (गजजानुभागविशेषः);
[Mātaṅga L.5.15.] Power (क्षी क्षयैश्वर्ययोरित्यैश्वर्यार्थस्य क्षिधातो रूपम् -Com. on
[Mb.12.33.2] ); उपपद्यति संयोगाद् गुणैः सह गुणक्षयात् ibid.
-यम् N. 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 time of universal destruction.
the period of decline.-कासः consumptive cough.
-तिथिः, f. 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.] 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. 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. f. total loss, ruin.