SEkza
śaikṣa , ( 1 ) m. (= Pali sek(k)ha; see Childers s.v. ; cf. śaiṣya and aśaikṣa ), one who is undergoing training; a disciple (in one of the first seven stages of religious discipline; the 8th is the aśaikṣa or arhant; list Dharmas 102 ); in mss. sometimes (erroneously?) written śaiṣya (by confusion with śiṣya), q.v. : Mvy 1733 ; 5238 (read with Mironov śaikṣābhinikūjitam); Ānanda was a śaikṣa, SP 2.8 ; śaikṣa-bhūmi, stage of a ś° , SP 70.13 ; Mv i.106.15 ( mss. śaikṣā°); others Mv i.142.5 ; 158.7 ; 267.20 ; 292.7 ; iii.53.8 ; 200.15 ; Divy 399.24 ; dvandva cpd. śaikṣāśaikṣa, śaikṣas and aśaikṣas , SP 2.9 ; 71.1 ; 215.9 ; in LV 327.4 ( vs ) read ( m.c. ) śaikṣa-aśaikṣa- (as cpd. ; mss. śaikṣaśaikṣa- or śaiṣyāśaiṣya-; Lefm. em. śaikṣya-aśaikṣya-!); LV 427.11 ; Mv i.120.1 ; Divy 261.5 (most mss. śaikṣa-ś°); 337.26 ; Av i.335.1 ; śaikṣa-aśaikṣa-(as cpd. , m.c. ) Bhad 9 ; śaikṣāśaikṣa-tā state of ś. and aś. Dbh 70.1 ; fem. śaikṣāśaikṣībhir bhikṣuṇībhiḥ Av i.269.7 ; separate words, śaikṣā aśaikṣa LV 46.5 ( vs ); ( 2 ) adj. (= Pali sekhiya), with dharma, (rule) of good behavior , orig. doubtless for learners, but applied to all monks; they are minor rules of etiquette, 75 in number in Pali , 113 in Prāt : °kṣadharmāḥ Mvy 8362 ; °kṣā dharmāḥ Prāt 527.6 . Cf. also naivaśaikṣanāśaikṣa .