lakṣa (12898)

lakṣa
Entry 12898, Page 458, Col. 1

(lakza, lakza)
lakṣa¦ (Skt.), mark: anena ca lakṣa-nikṣepeṇa SP 316.10 (prose), and by this depositing of the sort just described, lit. by this mark-deposit, or, perhaps better, by this de- positing on the (designated) mark (target, lakṣa). Acc. to Senart, lakṣa is read for lakṣaṇa (4) by mss. at Mv i.207.16, where he keeps it, tho in the repetition ii.12.6 he keeps lakṣaṇa with mss. there; in i.62.12 he em. lakṣa for lak- ṣaṇa, alleging metrical grounds, but the resulting meter is not correct; read rather maha-(m.c. for mahā-)-puru- ṣalakṣaṇavarāṇāṃ; and in i.207.16 we must also read, with ii.12.6, dvātriṃśallakṣaṇadharo (or °śa-lakṣaṇa- dharo?). There is no evidence that the Buddhist 32 lak- ṣaṇa were ever called lakṣa, despite Skt. lakṣa for lakṣaṇa, Vikr. car. JR VII.0.2 (HOS 27.233).